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How the Biden administration let right-wing attacks derail its disinformation efforts
The Washington Post via Yahoo ^ | May 18th, 2022 | Taylor Lorenz

Posted on 05/18/2022 1:37:13 PM PDT by Mariner

On the morning of April 27, the Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the first Disinformation Governance Board with the stated goal to "coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security." The Biden administration tapped Nina Jankowicz, a well-known figure in the field of fighting disinformation and extremism, as the board's executive director.

In naming the 33-year-old Jankowicz to run the newly created board, the administration chose someone with extensive experience in field of disinformation, which has emerged as an urgent and important issue. The author of the books "How to Be a Woman Online" and "How to Lose the Information War," her career also featured stints at multiple nonpartisan think tanks and nonprofits and included work that focused on strengthening democratic institutions. Within the small community of disinformation researchers, her work was well-regarded.

But within hours of news of her appointment, Jankowicz was thrust into the spotlight by the very forces she dedicated her career to combating. 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. She has been subject to an unrelenting barrage of harassment and abuse while unchecked misrepresentations of her work continue to go viral.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doxxintaylorlorenz; taylorlorenz; taylorthecrybully
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As far as I can tell she is a Nazi propagandist by trade, but without any training or expertise in information dissemination or creation. No education or training in a subject she is being credited with being expert.

Like most neocons, she's far too close to Nazis to not get the stench on her.

"Nina Jankowicz (born 1988/1989) is an American researcher, writer, and government official. She is the author of How to Lose the Information War (2020), on Russian use of disinformation as geopolitical strategy, and How to Be a Woman Online (2022), a handbook for fighting against online harassment of women. In April 2022, she was appointed executive director of the United States Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board, but resigned in May after questions started to emerge about her work with Ukrainian Organization “StopFake” whose been criticized after a Ukrainian journalist, published an article on Zaborona detailing links between leaders of far-right and neo-Nazi groups and the directors of StopFake.org. Following this, the journalist was targeted for harassment and threats, and personal information of her and her son were posted online by the Zelensky Administration and Zelensky Governments Intelligence Agencies. The journalist was later forced to flee for her and her sons life according to the Guardian and many other Western Media Outlets and Human Rights Groups.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Career

A double-major in Russian and political science, Jankowicz graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2011 and spent a semester at Herzen State Pedagogical University in Russia in 2010.[7][8] In 2017, she was a Fulbright fellow in Kyiv, working with the foreign ministry of Ukraine.[9] She has also served as a disinformation fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and as supervisor of the Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute.[10]

1 posted on 05/18/2022 1:37:13 PM PDT by Mariner
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Jankowicz


2 posted on 05/18/2022 1:37:46 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Lol. Taylor Lorenz. What a simpering putz.


3 posted on 05/18/2022 1:41:00 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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why doesnt one of those lib producers on broadway hire her.


4 posted on 05/18/2022 1:43:38 PM PDT by RummyChick
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by Taylor Lorenz

A marxist POS of the highest order.


5 posted on 05/18/2022 1:44:39 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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Nice lisp. He’s sthpecial (Musk).


6 posted on 05/18/2022 1:45:18 PM PDT by consult
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Taylor Lorenz on stage at Pilcrow House in 2019.jpg Looks about like one would expect.
7 posted on 05/18/2022 1:47:15 PM PDT by traderrob6
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Well then Taylor, now that you’ve finished this project you can finally complete your magnus opus, outing and destroying the family of a 10-year old for calling someone a poopyhead.


8 posted on 05/18/2022 1:47:28 PM PDT by wrcase
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>>She has been subject to an unrelenting barrage of harassment and abuse while unchecked misrepresentations of her work continue to go viral.

So, basically, she was treated like a Republican.


9 posted on 05/18/2022 1:48:46 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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Why the Washington Post Has No Credibility
10 posted on 05/18/2022 1:49:58 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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I’m going to miss her singing...


11 posted on 05/18/2022 1:50:40 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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She has been subject to an unrelenting barrage of harassment and abuse while unchecked misrepresentations of her work continue to go viral.

Couldn't the Disinformation Governance Board handle the "misrepresentations" of the pronouncements of its own "Executive Director" ?

12 posted on 05/18/2022 1:51:29 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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archetypal millennial snowflake.


13 posted on 05/18/2022 1:52:59 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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In 2017, she was a Fulbright fellow in Kyiv, working with the foreign ministry of Ukraine.

Oddly enough, didn't we overthrow the duly-elected government of Ukraine in 2014 and install our own globohomo-friendly regime in its place?

14 posted on 05/18/2022 1:53:00 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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"Lol. Taylor Lorenz. What a simpering putz."

Taylor Lorenz is more of a simpering futz.

15 posted on 05/18/2022 1:54:02 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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“....unchecked misrepresentations of her work continue to go viral.”


So that wasn’t her in the role of Scary Poppins?


16 posted on 05/18/2022 1:54:47 PM PDT by hanamizu
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So simple, see the Yahoo


17 posted on 05/18/2022 1:54:56 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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Pretty sure everyone trashed this one, including. Bill Maher.


18 posted on 05/18/2022 1:57:50 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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She took the pro-disinformation side of two of the biggest lies in modern politics: the completely manufactured Trump Russia collusion allegation and that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation rather than an honest look into the Biden crime family.

Zero for two is not a great record unless you are looking for someone to fight for the deep state against truth and the American people.

19 posted on 05/18/2022 2:07:14 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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Government has NO business, at all, being in or determining with information is misinformation or disinformation, period. The government is to be an neutral arbiter allowing ‘we the people’ to decide what to believe or not.

Frakin Left is a bunch of Fascist mofos and if they claim otherwise, they some lying SOBs. FACT.


20 posted on 05/18/2022 2:13:37 PM PDT by cranked
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