The US is becoming more and more like the CCP - now a government "fact checker" board is established to tell us what to think - April 28, 2022 - board

[sharon sanders]

The way to counter "disinformation" is to tell the truth - not to establish a propaganda board. Outrageous. This action serves to add fuel to the fire of every single conspir acy theory about the US government. Idiots.

I really question the people who are in charge. This is a really stupid idea. No one wants or needs government "fact checkers".

We know when Russia is lying. Same with China. Also - no amount of government "fact checking" is going to change the fact that our southern border situation is a crisis.

FluTrackers is Independent and we will stay online as long as we can. We WILL NOT go along with any propaganda routines.


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Disinformation board to tackle Russia, migrant smugglers


By AMANDA SEITZ
April 28, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation coming from Russia as well as misleading information that human smugglers circulate to target migrants hoping to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The spread of disinformation can affect border security, Americans’ safety during disasters, and public trust in our democratic institutions,” the department said in a statement Wednesday. It declined The Associated Press’ request for an interview.

A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board announced Wednesday will immediately begin focusing on misinformation aimed at migrants, a problem that has helped to fuel sudden surges at the U.S. southern border in recent years. Human smugglers often spread misinformation around border policies to drum up business.

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https://apnews.com/article/russia-uk...ad8659d9975e9d

 

[sharon sanders]

bump this

 

[Emily]

Punk on Mary Poppins! Our new Mistress of Truth:

 

[sharon sanders]

What a joke. Sad and pathetic.

 

[sharon sanders]

A lot of blame is going around for the pause in this board. It was a stupid idea to start with. No politics needed.

Stop trying to tell people what to think. Omg....If someone wants to believe crap....then let them.

Just stop.


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"Now, just three weeks after its announcement, the Disinformation Governance Board is being “paused,” according to multiple employees at DHS, capping a back-and-forth week of decisions that changed during the course of reporting of this story. On Monday, DHS decided to shut down the board, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. By Tuesday morning, Jankowicz had drafted a resignation letter in response to the board’s dissolution.

But Tuesday night, Jankowicz was pulled into an urgent call with DHS officials who gave her the choice to stay on, even as the department’s work was put on hold because of the backlash it faced, according to multiple people with knowledge of the call. Working groups within DHS focused on mis-, dis- and mal-information have been suspended. The board could still be shut down pending a review from the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Jankowicz is evaluating her position within the department."



https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/18/disinformation-board-dhs-nina-jankowicz/

 

[Emily]

Jankowicz is being officially side-lined, but the result will likely be the same as Francis Collins stepping down from NIH leadership after the email dump scandal and then quietly appointed as a key Science Advisor to the White House. Authoritarian regimes hear what they want to hear, one way or another.

 

[Pathfinder]

Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation

Ken Klippenstein, Lee Fang
October 31 2022, 3:00 a.m.

THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.

The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down.

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https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/...formation-dhs/