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Disinformation Board to Tackle Russia, Migrant Smugglers

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A literal "Ministry of 'Truth'". They are not even trying to hide it anymore.


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The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new panel to tackle disinformation.


By Associated Press
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April 28, 2022, at 7:57 a.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation coming from Russia as well as misleading information that human smugglers circulate to target migrants hoping to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The spread of disinformation can affect border security, Americans’ safety during disasters, and public trust in our democratic institutions,” the department said in a statement Wednesday. It declined The Associated Press' request for an interview.

A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board announced Wednesday will immediately begin focusing on misinformation aimed at migrants, a problem that has helped to fuel sudden surges at the U.S. southern border in recent years. Human smugglers often spread misinformation around border policies to drum up business."

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The new board also will monitor and prepare for Russian disinformation threats as this year's midterm elections near and the Kremlin continues an aggressive disinformation campaign around the war in Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly waged misinformation campaigns aimed at U.S. audiences to further divisions around election time and spread conspiracy theories around U.S. COVID-19 vaccines. Most recently, Russian state media outlets, social media accounts and officials have used the internet to call photographs, reporting and videos of dead bodies and bombed buildings in Ukraine fake.

The board will be led by disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, who has researched Russian misinformation tactics and online harassment.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden, a Democrat, repeatedly said he would push tech companies, including Facebook, to crack down harder on misinformation and conspiracy theories that have overwhelmed social media and its users.

Dozens of Republican lawmakers and pundits took to social media on Wednesday to widely criticize the new board and call for it to be disbanded.
 
A literal "Ministry of 'Truth'". They are not even trying to hide it anymore.


"
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new panel to tackle disinformation.


By Associated Press
|
April 28, 2022, at 7:57 a.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation coming from Russia as well as misleading information that human smugglers circulate to target migrants hoping to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The spread of disinformation can affect border security, Americans’ safety during disasters, and public trust in our democratic institutions,” the department said in a statement Wednesday. It declined The Associated Press' request for an interview.

A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board announced Wednesday will immediately begin focusing on misinformation aimed at migrants, a problem that has helped to fuel sudden surges at the U.S. southern border in recent years. Human smugglers often spread misinformation around border policies to drum up business."

"
The new board also will monitor and prepare for Russian disinformation threats as this year's midterm elections near and the Kremlin continues an aggressive disinformation campaign around the war in Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly waged misinformation campaigns aimed at U.S. audiences to further divisions around election time and spread conspiracy theories around U.S. COVID-19 vaccines. Most recently, Russian state media outlets, social media accounts and officials have used the internet to call photographs, reporting and videos of dead bodies and bombed buildings in Ukraine fake.

The board will be led by disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, who has researched Russian misinformation tactics and online harassment.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden, a Democrat, repeatedly said he would push tech companies, including Facebook, to crack down harder on misinformation and conspiracy theories that have overwhelmed social media and its users.

Dozens of Republican lawmakers and pundits took to social media on Wednesday to widely criticize the new board and call for it to be disbanded.
Are you saying Russian disinformation shouldn't be countered?
 
A literal "Ministry of 'Truth'". They are not even trying to hide it anymore.


"
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new panel to tackle disinformation.


By Associated Press
|
April 28, 2022, at 7:57 a.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation coming from Russia as well as misleading information that human smugglers circulate to target migrants hoping to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The spread of disinformation can affect border security, Americans’ safety during disasters, and public trust in our democratic institutions,” the department said in a statement Wednesday. It declined The Associated Press' request for an interview.

A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board announced Wednesday will immediately begin focusing on misinformation aimed at migrants, a problem that has helped to fuel sudden surges at the U.S. southern border in recent years. Human smugglers often spread misinformation around border policies to drum up business."

"
The new board also will monitor and prepare for Russian disinformation threats as this year's midterm elections near and the Kremlin continues an aggressive disinformation campaign around the war in Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly waged misinformation campaigns aimed at U.S. audiences to further divisions around election time and spread conspiracy theories around U.S. COVID-19 vaccines. Most recently, Russian state media outlets, social media accounts and officials have used the internet to call photographs, reporting and videos of dead bodies and bombed buildings in Ukraine fake.

The board will be led by disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, who has researched Russian misinformation tactics and online harassment.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden, a Democrat, repeatedly said he would push tech companies, including Facebook, to crack down harder on misinformation and conspiracy theories that have overwhelmed social media and its users.

Dozens of Republican lawmakers and pundits took to social media on Wednesday to widely criticize the new board and call for it to be disbanded.
The republicans don't want to counter Russian disinformation.

What the hell happened to the Republican party?
 
All they want to do is identify people who don't profess the accepted State narrative and put them in "threat to democracy" database.

Seems pretty legit - what could possibly go wrong?
 
All they want to do is identify people who don't profess the accepted State narrative and put them in "threat to democracy" database.

Seems pretty legit - what could possibly go wrong?
They already have that information.
 
All they want to do is identify people who don't profess the accepted State narrative and put them in "threat to democracy" database.

Seems pretty legit - what could possibly go wrong?
No, what they want to do is.

" to counter disinformation coming from Russia".
 
No, what they want to do is.

" to counter disinformation coming from Russia".
It's not limited to Russia. Please read at least the article in the OP.
 
A literal "Ministry of 'Truth'". They are not even trying to hide it anymore.


"
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new panel to tackle disinformation.


By Associated Press
|
April 28, 2022, at 7:57 a.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation coming from Russia as well as misleading information that human smugglers circulate to target migrants hoping to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border.

“The spread of disinformation can affect border security, Americans’ safety during disasters, and public trust in our democratic institutions,” the department said in a statement Wednesday. It declined The Associated Press' request for an interview.

A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board announced Wednesday will immediately begin focusing on misinformation aimed at migrants, a problem that has helped to fuel sudden surges at the U.S. southern border in recent years. Human smugglers often spread misinformation around border policies to drum up business."

"
The new board also will monitor and prepare for Russian disinformation threats as this year's midterm elections near and the Kremlin continues an aggressive disinformation campaign around the war in Ukraine. Russia has repeatedly waged misinformation campaigns aimed at U.S. audiences to further divisions around election time and spread conspiracy theories around U.S. COVID-19 vaccines. Most recently, Russian state media outlets, social media accounts and officials have used the internet to call photographs, reporting and videos of dead bodies and bombed buildings in Ukraine fake.

The board will be led by disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, who has researched Russian misinformation tactics and online harassment.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden, a Democrat, repeatedly said he would push tech companies, including Facebook, to crack down harder on misinformation and conspiracy theories that have overwhelmed social media and its users.

Dozens of Republican lawmakers and pundits took to social media on Wednesday to widely criticize the new board and call for it to be disbanded.
Sounds like they just created a dept to spy on their political opponents. Progressives will celebrate this until the GOP retake's power and they are the ones being spied on. We will then see a 180° and they will be predicting the end of democracy.
 
Sounds like they just created a dept to spy on their political opponents. Progressives will celebrate this until the GOP retake's power and they are the ones being spied on. We will then see a 180° and they will be predicting the end of democracy.
Sounds like they just created a dept. To counter disinformation.
 
Sounds like they just created a dept to spy on their political opponents. Progressives will celebrate this until the GOP retake's power and they are the ones being spied on. We will then see a 180° and they will be predicting the end of democracy.
Where will "room 101" reside and who will play "OBrien"?
 
Are you saying Russian disinformation shouldn't be countered?
I think people are saying that a fringe liberal who is extremely anti-free speech probably shouldn't be in Czar on this matter.

Nina Jankowicz said:
And so I think we need to think very, very carefully about what “speech” means and for whom we are talking about this speech being accessible. Because if we moved toward more of a free speech absolutist paradigm on the internet, that would mean less speech for women and less speech for marginalized communities.

Nina Jankowicz said:
I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities.

Nina Jankowicz said:
And I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities all around the world, which are already shouldering so much of this abuse, disproportionate amounts of this abuse, and retraumatizing themselves as they try to protect themselves from it, you know, reporting, blocking, et cetera. We need the platforms to do more, and we frankly need law enforcement and our legislatures to do more as well.
 
Next we are going to see the reinstatement of the "fairness doctrine" on a mass scale.
 
The republicans don't want to counter Russian disinformation.

What the hell happened to the Republican party?
Russian and ISIS disinformation is also known as Fox news and all the other garbage websites the traitor trolls go to

Doesn't sound anti free speech to me.

Countering disinformation is not anti free speech.

It is to asshole Republicans who rely on nothing but disinformation since they have no facts supporting their shitty, Talibenesque beliefs
 
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