Posted on 05/18/2022 10:28:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Following a report detailing the death-rattle of the Biden administration's Disinformation Governance Board, Executive Director Nina Jankowicz has officially resigned her post with the disinfo board and Department of Homeland Security.
UPDATE:
Following a report detailing the death-rattle of the Biden administration's Disinformation Governance Board, Executive Director Nina Jankowicz has officially resigned her post with the disinfo board and Department of Homeland Security.
UPDATE: Nina Jankowicz has officially resigned from Disinformation Governance Board and the DHS. https://t.co/rLi3FvUNMw https://t.co/z4hdwTBFIB— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) May 18, 2022
ORIGINAL POST:
After a rough three weeks in which conservatives landed significant hits on and exposed major flaws with the Department of Homeland Security's "Disinformation Governance Board," the much-mocked Ministry of Truth has been "paused" and Disinfo Czar Nina Jankowicz is looking to the exits.
This news, comes from a new "scoop" reported by none other than The Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz. Most of permanent-victim Lorenz's post is the same pablum we've seen from the mainstream media about how extremely qualified Jankowicz is and how critical the threat of so-called disinformation is to democracy — all without mentioning that Jankowicz has been a leading voice pushing debunked narratives and outright false information. Her rather laughable headline for the piece is: "How the Biden administration let right-wing attacks derail its disinformation efforts." Sure, Taylor.
As Lorenz writes in the piece published Wednesday morning:
...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.
Another interesting tidbit in the WaPo report is that the woman who was in charge of determining which speech was allowable and which wasn't — and even said she believed elites like herself should be allowed to add context to other users' online posts — was told to shut up by the Biden administration.
Described by Lorenz as enduring "attacks" (aka legitimate criticism of a terrible idea), "Jankowicz herself was told to stay silent. After attempting to defend herself on Twitter April 27, she was told by DHS officials to not issue any further public statements, according to multiple people close to her," Lorenz reported.
It's worth noting as well that Jankowicz had tweeted her support for Lorenz in the past, so the whole piece seeks to make a victim out of Jankowicz in order to come to her rescue like some sort of hero. "Girlcode," or something. To be clear, Jankowicz made herself a target, and almost all of the criticism of the Disinfo board's chief and its mission was based on publicly available information.
Jankowicz didn't have to tweet false claims about the veracity of Hunter Biden's laptop, but she did. She didn't have to post cringey TikTok videos singing songs about disinformation like some kind of looney librarian, but she did.
And the result of what Lorenz describes — a textbook example of Dems in Disarray — shows that the Biden administration somehow didn't see opposition coming when it announced what amounted to a Federal Bureau of Stopping Wrongspeak:
Democratic lawmakers, legislative staff and other administration employees who sought to defend Jankowicz were caught flat-footed. Administration officials did not brief the relevant congressional staff and committees ahead of the board’s launch, and members of Congress who had expressed interest in disinformation weren’t given a detailed explanation about how it would operate. A fact sheet released by DHS on May 2 did nothing to quell the outrage that had been building on the Internet, nor did it clarify much of what the board would actually be doing or Jankowicz’s role in it.
Now that the American people are aware of and against a government-ordained ministry of truth, the Biden administration is scrambling to deal with another internal crisis of their own creation. But all Biden's men, it seems, were unable to turn the tide.
That should have been “whom”, not who. Nina’s grammar is bad too.
How about “Department of Homeland Information”
I still can’t figure out the who, whom thing. And I’m pretty good at grammar. I know it’s after a preposition like to or for but that’s about it.
I see another rushed book on her horizon..."How the Internet Trolls Screwed me Again."
The commandant of the Cheka has resigned.
I don’t cringe much.
She is a cute, crazy, Harry Potter fan girl and has a nice voice, but she’s not bright enough to avoid saying the quiet part out loud. That is comedic gold.
Best of all the Disinformation Board would still exist when ‘Pubbies took power - think of the opportunities!
Exactly. She will probably work at a lobbying firm.
I don’t think they’re going to let it go just because she’s gone. They’ll find someone less funny and more dangerous.
Not a 'well-known figure', a self-promoting shiksa.
"The board itself and DHS received criticism for both its somewhat ominous name and scant details of specific mission (Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said it “could have done a better job of communicating what it is and what it isn’t”), but Jankowicz was on the receiving end of the harshest attacks, with her role mischaracterized as she became a primary target on the right-wing Internet."
If someone as nimrod as JackPo had Jackowitch's number from the get-go, C'MON MAN. Although it was fairly nimble for him to finger it as "The Ministry of Truth".
"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on May 1 responded to critics calling a new department initiative a violation of free speech."
And that was the last time in public Little Al ever mentioned the Ministry of Truth, having been castigated and castrated by both Democrats and Republicans in his Committee hearing. When he had to admit he was unaware of this biotch's Leftist screech---t background -- let's just say Little Al does not suffer humiliation lightly.
"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. On Wednesday morning, Jankowicz officially resigned from her role within the department."
This part is fantastic. This is one of the most schadenfreudic turd blossoms from the White Hospice since chemobrain Stage 4 cancerbutt TJ Ducklo threatened a reporter and had to resign in disgrace (and might be in his own ho- ho-hospice by now).
"A fact sheet released by DHS on May 2 did nothing to quell the outrage that had been building on the Internet, nor did it clarify much of what the board would actually be doing or Jankowicz’s role in it...As she endured the attacks, Jankowicz herself was told to stay silent. After attempting to defend herself on Twitter April 27, she was told by DHS officials to not issue any further public statements, according to multiple people close to her."
Her OWN PEOPLE CENSORED HER. Shut up, shut shut shut up, biotch! The takeaway? It polled ridiculously badly.
Amazing! Fantastic! THANKS FOR THE PING!
Shell be replaced by an even bigger nut, but this one will be black,trans,and or a lesbian. This will put her above all criticism.
What if this is an elaborate criss-cross?
What if the death of the Government Disinformation Board is, in fact, DISINFORMATION?
“The irony is that Nina’s role was to come up with strategies for the department to counter this type of campaign, and now they’ve just succumbed to it themselves,” said one Hill staffer with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the issue. “They didn’t even fight, they just rolled over. bleat bleat bleat baaaaah”She got rolled over alright, and over and over and over, rover. L. O. F. L.
- 4 "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
- 5 "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
- 8 "Keep the pressure on."
- 13 "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. "
Just when she was taking some of the pressure off of the other inept fool...the new White House press secretary!
Well, I don’t necessarily beleive she quit or was fired.
I mean, these weasels lie about everything, so why not this too ?
She’ll be hosting after Jen Psaki at MSNBC
Epic Fail
To me, her resignation confirms that was all just a distraction.
... the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board ... The board could still be shut down pending a review ...
Nina Jankowicz has officially resigned from Disinformation Governance Board and the DHS. Taylor Lorenz - (@TaylorLorenz) - May 18, 2022
But, since the Disinformation Governance Board has been ‘paused’, how do we know that the report from serial liar Taylor Lorenz that Nina Jankowicz has resigned is true? Or perhaps the whole Department has been reconstituted under a different umbrella, Nina Jankowicz included, making the whole resignation story true but inaccurate.
But this new ministry of truth is still there awaiting a new Chekist to run it.
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