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WASHINGTON Questions about whether a new Department of Homeland Security panel to combat misinformation will curb Americans free speech, and whether the woman named to run the board is too partisan for the position, have emerged as the latest headache for the Biden administration, which appeared to be unprepared for the controversy.
I think we probably could have done a better job of communicating what it does and does not do, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted to Dana Bash of CNN, in one of several interviews he conducted on Sunday morning to explain why Americans should not be worried about what he came to describe as merely a working group to counter foreign influence campaigns.
But by then, the Orwellian narrative had spread far and wide.
The extensive effort at damage control was a tacit recognition that since Mayorkas somewhat casually mentioned the creation of the Disinformation Governance Board last Wednesday at a House budgetary hearing, the administration had not done enough to explain its function, letting imaginations run wild.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/not-the-opinion-police-misinformation-board-is-latest-headache-for-white-house/ar-AAWQooY
The tinfoil hat crowd will believe anything.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)their fascist propaganda.
underpants
(182,863 posts)Tickle
(2,534 posts)is what happens when and if the other side is in control. What could they do with this disinformation board?
chowder66
(9,074 posts)People don't care, they react..... to things real and imagined.
We live in a hyper-emotive world.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)The article uses misinformation and disinformation as though they are interchangeable.
One is propaganda, one is not.
GOP must know they're spouting disinformation, or they wouldn't fret so.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,825 posts)Senate and House investigation committee hearings on this crucial matter.
ck4829
(35,080 posts)And people spread jpegs around with fake quotes on them as gospel.
Example:
Link to tweet
It'd be nice if there was some sort of curb on this, but that's not going to happen.
FSogol
(45,514 posts)Damn!