05-18-2022, 04:52 PM
Some good news that this board has been put on "pause" and Nina Jankowicz has been let go from her post. This is good news, as illustrated by this article about her from left leaning publication The Nation:
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/meet-the-head-of-bidens-new-disinformation-governing-board/
"But there’s no need to engage in hypotheticals to understand the dangers. One has to only consider the past of Nina Jankowicz, the head of the new disinformation board.
Jankowicz’s experience as a disinformation warrior includes her work with StopFake, a US government-funded “anti-disinformation” organization founded in March 2014 and lauded as a model of how to combat Kremlin lies. Four years later, StopFake began aggressively whitewashing two Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups with a long track record of violence, including war crimes.
Today, StopFake is an official Facebook fact-checking partner, which gives it the power to censor news, while Jankowicz is America’s disinformation czar."
There is, of course, more and if you take the time to read it you'll, hopefully, have an understanding of both why this board was a bad idea and naming this woman to head it an even worse one. Here's the news about the board being put on pause, written, predictably by Taylor Lorenz. BTW, the comments section is literally left wing blindness and propaganda 101.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/18/disinformation-board-dhs-nina-jankowicz/
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/meet-the-head-of-bidens-new-disinformation-governing-board/
"But there’s no need to engage in hypotheticals to understand the dangers. One has to only consider the past of Nina Jankowicz, the head of the new disinformation board.
Jankowicz’s experience as a disinformation warrior includes her work with StopFake, a US government-funded “anti-disinformation” organization founded in March 2014 and lauded as a model of how to combat Kremlin lies. Four years later, StopFake began aggressively whitewashing two Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups with a long track record of violence, including war crimes.
Today, StopFake is an official Facebook fact-checking partner, which gives it the power to censor news, while Jankowicz is America’s disinformation czar."
There is, of course, more and if you take the time to read it you'll, hopefully, have an understanding of both why this board was a bad idea and naming this woman to head it an even worse one. Here's the news about the board being put on pause, written, predictably by Taylor Lorenz. BTW, the comments section is literally left wing blindness and propaganda 101.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/18/disinformation-board-dhs-nina-jankowicz/
