American Military News by Ryan Morgan August 26, 2022
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has officially ended the charter for its so-called Disinformation Governance Board this week after critics raised concerns about censorship and the board’s partisan leadership.
“In accordance with the [Homeland Security Advisory Council’s] prior recommendation, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas has terminated the Disinformation Governance Board and rescinded its charter effective today, August 24, 2022,” a DHS statement said on Wednesday.
Mayorkas paused the Disinformation Governance Board in May, just three weeks after the DHS unveiled the office. The decision came amid concerns about the board’s true function and resurfaced partisan comments by the board’s inaugural director, Nina Jankowicz.
In her 2020 book, “How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict,” Jankowicz wrote “Election meddling wasn’t the only reason Donald Trump won the [2016] election, but it was a significant contributing factor” and wrote that Trump used the term “fake news” to “describe any narrative they find politically inconvenient.”
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