Posted on 05/13/2023 3:29:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
There is a word with which we have all become acquainted over the past few years. That word is disinformation, and, as many politicians assert, it is indeed a danger to democracy. When voters are misinformed, they make bad decisions – and sometimes those decisions are catastrophically bad. Unfortunately, the most influential disinformation campaigns have been conducted not by foreign adversaries but by presidential campaigns here at home, aided and abetted by the Deep State and a compliant and complicit media. Still, the official narrative is that America’s rivals are the problem, and so the Biden administration has used a crisis that doesn’t exist to create its own “Ministry of Truth” known as the Foreign Malign Influence Center, or FMIC.
In 2022, Congress approved funding for the FMIC effective May 8, 2023. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines appointed Jeffrey K. Wichman, a former senior CIA analyst, to head up the new agency in the role of acting director. So, it seems that the quick demise of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board did not deter those who want to control what Americans hear, read, and believe. Now, they have revived the same entity under a different department and with a slightly less Orwellian name. But that’s not the whole story.
The Biden administration never did abandon its plans for sweeping censorship in the name of election integrity and national security. Though the Disinformation Governance Board disappeared, various federal government departments created their own versions, such as the Department of Defense’s Influence and Perception Management Office. The FMIC represents a ramping up of the executive branch’s war on unapproved news and opinion, operating within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to oversee the entire effort to counter what the administration deems to be disinformation.
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Closer to 2024, worse it will get.
Media censorship is part of election rigging as much as vote fraud.
As predicted…
“Though the Disinformation Governance Board disappeared.”
No it didn’t, they didn’t stutter step one bit. They went all in, rebranded it, and went underground. They are operating in full force making lists.
In Hong Kong, you can disagree with the government but if they don’t agree with your interpretation of the facts then they will deem it “misinformation” and not only denounce the “facts” but also set the record straight according to the government. Finally, they may arrest the person for subversion and inciting hatred towards the government.
The US has a long way to go to catch up to China.
In the 1800s, when the Japs created the concept of “Thought Police”, they could never have imagined the extent to which it would grow and prosper...
No subsequent tyrannical nation implementing thought control has ever come close to the current global environment and its thought control technologies...
Particularly in the communist-controlled United States...
We’ve had a Ministry of Truth for over a 100 years it’s called the news media it’s why people learned how to read between the lines.
The NY Times an many others gave Hitler and the democrats a free ride and still do Biden and party is their God.
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