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Spin: Mayorkas's oily assurances about his Disinformation Governance Board fall flat
American Thinker ^ | 2 May, 2022 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 05/02/2022 11:40:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Following the announcement of his "Disinformation Governance Board," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas found himself scrambling to spin the hideous new speech enforcer, claiming it was not as Orwellian as any normal person would think.

Speaking with Fox News, Sunday he told Bret Baier:

"This is a working group that takes best practices to make sure that, in addressing disinformation that presents a threat to the homeland, our work does not infringe on free speech, does not infringe on civil rights, civil liberties," he continued. "It's not about speech, it's about the connectivity to violence.

SNIP

Not one word of it is to be believed.

Baier did a pretty good objective-effort interview but one thing he didn't mention was the strange timing of the DGB rollout:

It was right when Elon Musk decided to purchase Twitter in order to restore its free speech orientation. The left had an absolute meltdown about that, as they had benefited politically from Twitter's outrageous censorship practices which were ongoing. The leftists of Twitter had shut down the president of the United States who was guilty of nothing, on claims of preventing 'violence,' as well as America's oldest newspaper, the New York Post, after it uncovered a major news story about Biden family corruption based on the contents of Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop. Twitter at the time called it foreign 'disinformation' and falsely claimed it was hacked rather than abandoned content, while in reality, their real aim was to benefit the 2020 presidential campaign of Joe Biden as an illegal in-kind donation, which they got away with.

The timing of this board has nothing to do with that? Yes, we know that the left has been bucking for more censorship on social media -- as the case of the phony Democrat-linked Facebook whistleblower, Francis Haugen

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: alejandromayorkas; censorship; communism; dhs; disinformation; elonmusk; freespeech; mediawingofthednc; musk; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; policestate; ronklain; socialmedia; truthsocial; twitter
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To: martin_fierro

Coincidentally they all voted for the Biden Boondoggle, too.


21 posted on 05/02/2022 12:22:28 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MtnClimber

This has been going on in around San Francisco probably for 50 years.
I didn’t realize it until 2010 when I told friends in the Bay Area I was a member of the Tea Party.
They had NEVER heard of it.
There had been a total news blackout regarding this topic.

Back 4 years ago I told a friend from AZ about the growth of power with a group called “Antifi”.
She said she had never heard of it and wanted to know which right wing group they were associated with.


22 posted on 05/02/2022 12:23:46 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Paladin2
Defund the DHS except ICE and Border Patrol.

DHS is such a patchwork of good and bad. TSA should never have been formed. The USCG must be sick that they have to report to DHS. The SHARES HF contingency radio program is very worthwhile - at least it's tiny and buried deep.

23 posted on 05/02/2022 12:26:56 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: martin_fierro

They will all sit on the board of advisers..plus Liz.
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24 posted on 05/02/2022 12:42:00 PM PDT by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: MtnClimber
Everyone in the United States should be very alarmed that the Democrats formed a Ministry of Propaganda. Recent history has shown where this is going.

From the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum; The Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/ministry-of-propaganda-and-public-enlightenment

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda

25 posted on 05/02/2022 1:18:32 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

Who exactly are the other communists are in the Cuba Mayyarkas Ukrainian-Russian Mary Poppins Disinformation Source group?


26 posted on 05/02/2022 1:48:35 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: euram

He is a Cuban Communist.


27 posted on 05/02/2022 1:49:47 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: MtnClimber

He is SMARMY PERSONIFIED!


28 posted on 05/02/2022 2:02:56 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Zathras
This has been going on in around San Francisco probably for 50 years. I didn’t realize it until 2010 when I told friends in the Bay Area I was a member of the Tea Party. They had NEVER heard of it. There had been a total news blackout regarding this topic. Back 4 years ago I told a friend from AZ about the growth of power with a group called “Antifi”. She said she had never heard of it and wanted to know which right wing group they were associated with.

That is amazing. A little surprising, too.

But I guess in order to be informed you must put some effort into it.

As we do.

29 posted on 05/02/2022 5:38:41 PM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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