Monday, May 9th 2022 at 10:45 am
Originally published on www.mercola.com
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has quietly set up a Disinformation Governance Board to oversee what information is and isn't "truthful"
- Heading up this new "Ministry of Truth" is Nina Jankowicz, a "Russian disinformation expert" who in her spare time sings show tunes about disinformation and erotic Harry Potter songs on TikTok
- Jankowicz is herself known for spreading disinformation. She called the Hunter Biden laptop story a "fairytale" and "Russian disinformation," and she's openly opposed to free speech and anti-censorship efforts
- In her book, "How to Lose the Information War," Jankowicz criticized Poland's efforts to eliminate censorship of conservatives on social networks, and called for the U.S. government to regulate and conduct oversight of people who disagree with the Democratic party on Twitter
- Every dictatorship and autocracy has had a ministry of truth, a department of propaganda, and Biden has now joined them. May 1, 2022, GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert introduced a bill to immediately defund and terminate the Disinformation Governance Board
By now, you've probably heard that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has
created a Disinformation Governance Board to oversee what information is and isn't "truthful."1 This includes information relating to elections.2 It's so incredibly Orwellian, you'd think it was pure fiction, yet here we are. It's real.This "Ministry of Truth" will reportedly operate under and receive funding from the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), created by President Biden to "curb radicalization in the U.S."3 It appears those in the Biden administration must have thought "1984" was an instruction manual rather than a warning.
Known Disinformation Spreader Made Head of Truth Ministry
Heading up this new "Ministry of Truth" is Nina Jankowicz,4 a "Russian disinformation expert" who in her spare time makes a fool of herself singing made-up show tunes about disinformation and erotic Harry Potter songs5 on TikTok.
As noted by both Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson and Jimmy Dore of "The Jimmy Dore Show" in the videos above, Jankowicz is qualified to do absolutely nothing. Independent journalist Glen Greenwald also highlighted Jankowicz's obvious lack of real credentials in a May 4, 2022, Substack article:6
"The concept of 'anti-disinformation expert' is itself completely fraudulent. This is not a real expertise but rather a concocted title bestowed on propagandists to make them appear more scholarly and apolitical than they are ...
There is no conceivable circumstance in which a domestic law enforcement agency like DHS should be claiming the power to decree truth and falsity ... The purpose of Homeland Security agents is to propagandize and deceive, not enlighten and inform.
The level of historical ignorance and stupidity required to believe that U.S. Security State operatives are earnestly devoted to exposing and decreeing truth is off the charts … That nobody should want the U.S. Government let alone Homeland Security arrogating unto itself the power to declare truth and falsity seems self-evident."
Surprisingly enough, even mainstream news outlets have pointed out Jankowicz's role in the spreading of disinformation and outright lies. For example, as reported by the British Daily Mail:7
"The Russia disinformation expert previously called the laptop of President Joe Biden's son Hunter a 'Trump campaign product.' This is causing questions over Jankowicz's ability to accurately judge disinformation now that several sources have come out confirming the validity of Hunter's laptop ...
When stories about Hunter Biden's laptop started emerging, several outlets, social media sites and left-leaning disinformation experts claimed that it was just misinformation coming from Trump and others on the right.
In an October 2020 report, Jankowicz shared her skepticism of the contents of the laptop and the claims it belonged to Hunter. 'We should view it as a Trump campaign product,' she told the New York Daily News at the time. Twitter repeatedly took down the Hunter Biden laptop story and prevented it from being spread on the platform."
In one October 2020 tweet, she referred to the Hunter Biden laptop story as a "fairytale."8 Jankowicz was also among those who insisted Trump had colluded with Russia to win the presidency in 2016, a claim we now know is patently false. In reality, it was Hillary Clinton and allies who colluded to fabricate this false narrative and derail Trump's presidency.9
Over the past couple years, we've repeatedly seen how information censored on the grounds that it was "misinformation" turned out to be factual and true. In early 2020, YouTube betrayed its founding principles and started censoring and banning anything that contradicted the World Health Organization's stance on COVID-19.
Yet, time and again, the WHO turned out to be wrong.10 No organization is infallible, and the WHO has a long history of corruption that makes its ability to discern what's best for public health all the more suspect. Twitter followed suit, axing health experts, scientists and respected journalists like Tess Lawrie, Martin Kulldorf, Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Alex Berenson and many more.11
Jankowicz's Hostile Stand Against First Amendment Rights
Jankowicz has also publicly opposed the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, saying free speech is bad for "marginalized communities." Shortly after Elon Musk announced his takeover of Twitter, she told NPR:12
"I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities ...
We need the platforms to do more, and we frankly need law enforcement and our legislatures to do more as well … the U.K. has an online safety bill that's being considered right now where they're trying to make illegal this currently, quote, 'awful but lawful content' that exists online where people are being harassed."
Lack of censorship on social media will make abuse against marginalized groups worse, she claims. At the same time, she insists that "a HUGE focus" of the new disinformation board will be "protecting free speech, privacy, civil rights and civil liberties."13
This is clearly Orwellian doublespeak, where what's being said is the complete opposite of reality. How can you have a board dedicated to dictating "truth," which means censoring "untruth," while simultaneously protecting free speech? Either all viewpoints are allowed, or only one viewpoint is permitted, and if only one viewpoint is tolerated, then there's clearly no free speech.
In her book, "How to Lose the Information War," she also criticized Poland's efforts to eliminate rampant online censorship of conservatives on social networks by forming a Ministry of Digital Affairs.
In other words, she wants conservative views to be censored, not just in the U.S., but everywhere. In that book, she also called on the U.S. government to regulate and conduct oversight of people who disagree with the Democratic party on Twitter. As noted by Carlson, that's likely why she was selected in the first place.
Not surprisingly, then, Jankowicz has expressed "dismay" at Musk's decision to no longer censor posts discussing potential fraud in the 2020 election.14 Interestingly, in a September 2020 tweet, she defined the term "color revolution" and "why the U.S. isn't a candidate for one."15
In it, she noted that "Believe it or not, sometimes people get fed up with having their voices silenced for decades," but she then insisted that a color revolution isn't possible in the U.S. because "we are not an autocracy," and color revolutions only occur in oppressive autocracy regimes.
Given an Inch, They'll Take a Mile
Others disagree with that assessment. As noted by former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (video above), every dictatorship and autocracy has had a ministry of truth, a department of propaganda. And Biden just joined them.
Gabbard also accurately points out that the government has been working with media and Big Tech to censor for some time already. We've become increasingly aware of this covert backdoor influence over the past two years. Now, however, they're formalizing that influence, which is, by the way, completely unconstitutional.
Moreover, the scary truth here is that the terms "misinformation" and "disinformation" could cover absolutely anything. As noted by Carlson in the featured video, the DHS has not actually defined or given any clues as to what mis- or disinformation actually is.
"Would you declare war on a country you couldn't name?" Carlson asks. "Would you sentence someone to death for a crime you couldn't describe? Of course you wouldn't, not if you were a sane and decent person. Because you can't have justice without precise definitions ...
But they're not defining the core concept, the heart of what is effectively a new law enforcement agency. Maybe that is because [U.S. secretary of homeland security, Alejandro] Mayorkas doesn't want justice, and neither does the president he serves. They want power. And to get power, they plan to control what you think."
Carlson points out that the DHS has now publicly admitted they intend to punish people for merely thinking "the wrong way," even if they've committed no actual crime worthy of judicial intervention. In short, anyone who disagrees with the Biden administration is now an enemy of the state. As noted by Carlson:
"You can't make any of this up. It's too grotesque. Would you believe a novel with this plot? No, you wouldn't, but it's happening, and that's the bad news. The good news is, everyone involved in Joe Biden's Ministry of Information is a buffoon. They may be evil, but they're also ridiculous."
He then airs one of Jankowicz's undignified TikTok videos, where she's singing about disinformation. "This is now one of our top law enforcement officials," he dryly notes. Jankowicz has also, ironically, accused Republicans of dealing in "highly emotional rhetoric," which proves nothing except the fact that she's read George Orwell's "1984" more than once.
In fact, Democrats accuse their opponents of doing exactly what they themselves are doing so regularly, you can be near-assured that any accusation is a veiled admission at this point. And, in his report, Carlson reviews how Jankowicz is guilty of this exact behavior. Carlson also points out that her falsehoods have by no means been inconsequential.
Her disinformation helped presidential candidate Biden to lie about an incredibly important story -- Hunter's laptop -- that could have altered the outcome of the presidential election, had it been up for public discussion. Jankowicz has never apologized for dismissing what was in fact truthful, and neither has anyone else who insisted the laptop was "Russian disinformation."
An International Coordination Effort to Censor Free Speech
Now, some have pointed out that this Disinformation Governance Board didn't come into existence until Musk bought Twitter, promising to turn it into a free speech platform.16,17 However, other evidence strongly indicates there's international coordination taking place.
In mid-April 2022, the European Union approved new rules aimed at policing Big Tech platforms. As reported by the Financial Times:18
"The EU will force Big Tech companies to police content online more aggressively after approving a major piece of legislation that sets the rules for the first time on how companies should keep users safe on the internet ...
Leading tech groups will be forced to disclose to EU regulators how they are tackling disinformation and war propaganda in order to curb the spread of fake information -- an effort that has gained fresh momentum since the Russian invasion of Ukraine ... Countries such as the U.S., Canada and Singapore are expected to follow with similar rules in the coming months."
Some of the language used to describe this EU legislation sounds good -- for example, it will ban the targeting of internet users based on personal information such as gender, religion and sexual preferences, and terms and conditions must be clearly understandable even to children.
However, there are also many reasons to suspect that these regulations will end up serving as a springboard for government-directed censorship. Among them is the fact that the EU is supporting the proposal to make the WHO into a global health authority, and the WHO, in turn, is setting up its own censorship network.
A key player in that network is NewsGuard,19 which entered into a partnership with the WHO in August 2020.20 As reported by Carlson, NewsGuard has also received funding from the U.S. Pentagon to blacklist any site that publishes "misinformation" about the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Time to Draw a Line in the Sand
Clearly, the shocking censorship we experienced during the COVID pandemic was only the beginning. It's going to include all kinds of information. The creation of a DHS Disinformation Governance Board is truly a watershed moment in history, and we cannot allow it to stand. As noted by Carlson in the featured video at the top of this article:
"Just to be clear, this is a nightmare unfolding in slow motion. But this is the point where we're just going to have to draw the line. No, Joe Biden, you cannot have a federally funded ministry of truth. And no, Nina Jankowicz can't run it. Period. It's not your country ... and you don't get to do this to a free people. Period. This can't happen."
May 1, 2022, GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert introduced a bill to immediately defund and terminate the Disinformation Governance Board. In an interview with Fox News, Boebert said:21
"This kind of stuff is terrifying. We in Congress have the power of the purse. It is our duty to shut down this department immediately. I'm calling on leadership in the Republican Party -- Leader McCarthy, Whip Scalise, and others -- to join me in calling for this department to be shut down and defunded.
No tax dollars should go to where Biden can use the power of the federal government to silence truthful stories like Big Tech did with the Hunter Biden story. Democrats took [Orwell's book '1984'] not as a warning, but as a guide.
This is really a department of propaganda. To say that the federal department has a say in what's right and what's wrong, what's truth and what's not -- this is a very dangerous place that we've come to."
References
1 The Postmillenial April 27, 2022
2 The Federalist April 28, 2022
3, 7 Daily Mail April 27, 2022, Updated April 28, 2022
4, 13 Newsweek April 28, 2022
5, 8, 14 The Post Millennial April 27, 2022
6 Glen Greenwald Substack May 4, 2022
9 Conservative Treehouse April 23, 2022
11 Twitter Phil Harper April 26, 2022
15 Twitter Cernovich April 27, 2022
17 Maajid Nawaz Substack April 28, 2022
18 Financial Times April 23, 2022
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