Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board Met Months Before Mayorkas Testified That They Hadn’t

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Newly launched paperwork seem to contradict testimony by Homeland Safety (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in Could that the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board had not but met.

Mayorkas, showing earlier than the Home Appropriations Subcommittee to debate the fiscal 2023 funds for the division, testified on the creation of the board.

“The objective is to deliver the assets of (DHS) collectively to deal with this risk (of misinformation),” Mayorkas mentioned.

Underneath questioning by Senator Josh Hawley on Could 4th, the Secretary testified that “the board has not but met.”

An exasperated Hawley (R-MO) requested, “Wait a minute, there aren’t any minutes of conferences about this board?”

“It has not but begun it’s work,” Mayorkas replied.

Not so, based on paperwork found by Hawley.



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Mayorkas Testimony on Disinformation Governance Board Contradicted

Hawley revealed paperwork countering Mayorkas’ testimony on the now-defunct Disinformation Governance Board.

Regardless of the Secretary’s feedback, Hawley contends that the board’s Steering Group “had begun assembly on a weekly foundation as early as February 2022 and already had operational authorities.”

Moreover, closely redacted emails point out Nina Jankowicz, who was controversially named Government Director of the Board earlier than resigning following scrutiny that she’d engaged in spreading her personal disinformation, agreed to the function in January.

The Political Insider reported that Jankowicz, who unfold disinformation about Hunter Biden’s laptop computer being “a Trump marketing campaign product,” not too long ago registered as a international agent.

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Colluded With Massive Tech

Hawley additionally maintains that the paperwork obtained from a whistleblower earlier this yr present a brand new depth of coordination with Massive Tech corporations to observe and suppress the speech of Americans.

The Missouri lawmaker states that the Disinformation Governance Board had pursued “a possible partnership with Twitter” in addition to a public-facing “Rumor Management Program.”

“Jankowicz,” Hawley wrote in a letter to Mayorkas, “repeatedly pushed for DHS to ascertain an ‘analytic alternate’ with business companions.’”

The Senator states this may need been “a portal for Massive Tech corporations to coordinate speech suppression with the federal government.”

Emails additionally reveal that the Disinformation Board deliberate to fulfill with Nathaniel Gleicher of Fb.

Gleicher spearheaded the corporate’s safety coverage whereas they actively suppressed the attain of The New York Submit’s Hunter Biden laptop computer story. 

The Division of Homeland Safety finally put the disinformation board on pause after Jankowicz resigned.

Hawley is requesting that unredacted copies of the paperwork be turned over to Congress, together with any data attentive to his six earlier oversight requests.

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