Posted on 04/06/2023 3:58:18 PM PDT by Twotone
Members of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) advisory committee on combating “misinformation” privately cast critics of their work, including those who raised the alarm over government censorship of free speech, as malign actors, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
An advisory panel under the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA), called the Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Misinformation and Disinformation Subcommittee, issued recommendations to CISA in June on how to address threats to “critical functions” of democracy, including public health measures, the financial system, elections and the court system. The subcommittee recommended CISA detect “informational threats,” work with “non-governmental” sources to dispel mis- and disinformation and expand misinformation research.
However, behind the scenes, subcommittee members indicated their intent to expand CISA’s role over speech, characterizing critics of their work as bad faith actors, according to emails and meeting notes obtained by the DCNF through a public records request. The communications demonstrate the attitudes that members of the subcommittee held regarding speech, at the same time that they were advising the DHS on how to crack down on misinformation.
The subcommittee included University of Washington professor Kate Starbird, Center for Strategic and International Studies senior adviser Suzanne Spaulding, and former Twitter chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, who played a key role in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, along with CISA officials.
The DCNF previously reported that the subcommittee sought to enlist left-wing research groups and pro-censorship organizations in its efforts to crack down on misinformation. Additionally, CISA Director Jen Easterly partly accepted the subcommittee’s recommendation that CISA fund outside research into misinformation and disinformation, with guidelines to be fleshed out in 2023.
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Ah totalitarianism....thinly disguised.
Good-faith, Bad-faith, really just more lib doublespeak.
Every Democrat accusation is actually a confession.
Does the Babylon Bee have some headline-writing software?
Oh wait!!
Huh…..
Scratches head.
Puzzled look🤨🤔
I just looked up and re-read the Bill of Rights, First Amendment. Help me here; I can’t find anything about banning miss information, mal information or even a ban on pure lies. Damn these commie SOBs.
The University of Washington where Kate Starbird is a professor also hosted one of those Chinese backed Confucius Institutes.
Worth reading all the way to the end. Amusing that they say they were concerned about foreign misinformation on social media right when social media companies were using foreigners as their fact checkers. Guess it depends on what the definition of foreign influence is.
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