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\"\"<\/a>Lessons from Biden\u2019s Disinformation Board Debacle<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

President Biden\u2019s campaign to banish (or maybe outlaw) political paranoia took a wallop last spring<\/strong>. In April, the Department of Homeland Security proudly announced that it had created a new Disinformation Governance Board. The following month, the board\u2019s chairman resigned, and Biden administration officials claimed the board was being \u201cpaused.\u201d But it remains in the wings awaiting the White House summons for an encore performance.<\/p>\n

From the start, the Disinformation Governance Board looked like a political caricature dreamed up by people who never appreciated either Monty Python or Orwell\u2019s 1984.<\/strong> Given the Biden record, it was unclear whether the new board will be fighting or promulgating \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/strong> After controversy erupted, an unnamed DHS spokesperson told the Washington Post: \u201cThe Board\u2019s purpose has been grossly mischaracterized; it will not police speech\u2026. Its focus is to ensure that freedom of speech is protected.\u201d Geez, why didn\u2019t the Founding Fathers think of adding a clause to the First Amendment creating a nefarious-sounding government agency to ride shotgun on the nation\u2019s media?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Team Biden expected applause and deference when they announced the first disinformation czar for the board, Nina Jankowicz, a 33-year-old Bryn Mawr college graduate who was hailed as an \u201cinformation warfare expert.\u201d Jankowicz had the type of resume that made the Washington Post swoon \u2014 a Fulbright scholar, a graduate degree from Georgetown University, and \u201cstints at multiple nonpartisan think tanks\u201d \u2014 all of which were coincidentally progovernment \u2014 thus proving that Jankowicz herself was trustworthy.<\/p>\n

Team Biden\u2019s vetting operations didn\u2019t win any kudos on this appointment. They failed to ask a critical question: Does she sing?<\/strong> After Jankowicz\u2019s name hit the headlines, activists were soon whooping up some of her greatest performances discovered online. There was her TikTok version of a \u201cMary Poppins\u201d song warning \u201cInformation laundering is really quite ferocious.\u201d More surprising was her YouTube Christmas parody song performance, \u201cWho do I f\u2013k to be famous and powerful?\u201d<\/p>\n

More troubling was her long record of cheerleading for political propaganda. Jankowicz previously worked for StopFake, a federally funded media-influence operation that in 2018 \u201cbegan aggressively whitewashing two Ukrainian neo-Nazi groups with a long track record of violence, including war crimes,\u201d even dabbling \u201cwith Holocaust distortion, downplaying WWII-era paramilitaries who slaughtered Jews as mere \u2018historic figures\u2019 and Ukrainian nationalist leaders,\u201d as The Nation reported. She also worked for the National Democratic Institute, which is heavily funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, which has spurred perennial controversy for interfering in foreign elections.
\nA long record of censorship<\/p>\n

When Jankowicz testified in Britain on the UK\u2019s Online Safety Bill, which entitled the government to ban any content with \u201cthe potential to cause harm,\u201d she endorsed banning \u201cmisogyny\u201d (bad news for old videos of Benny Hill shows). She also derided free speech as on par with \u201cfairy dust.\u201d As Paul Joseph Watson reported in Summit News, \u201cJankowicz asserted that social media platforms should utilize algorithms that would \u2018allow us to get around some of the free speech concerns\u2019 by demoting content so few people saw it.\u201d Jankowicz assured the legislators: \u201cYou can shout in the black void, but you do not get a huge audience to do that.\u201d And people like her should have the prerogative to covertly determine how much audience each idea deserves, right?<\/p>\n

Jankowicz believes that \u201ctrustworthy experts\u201d such as herself (she boasts that she is \u201cverified\u201d by Twitter) should be empowered to \u201cedit\u201d other people\u2019s tweets to \u201cadd context.\u201d She denounced Loudoun County, Va., parents who complained about left-wing school curriculum for \u201cdisinformation\u201d and \u201cweaponizing people\u2019s emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n

In October 2020, after the New York Post exposed damning emails and other information in Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, Jankowicz scoffed at the laptop controversy: \u201cWe should view it as a Trump campaign product.\u201d She supported the 50 former intelligence officials and other honchos who vouched that the laptop should not be trusted, thereby helping Biden win the 2020 election (according to former attorney general Bill Barr).<\/p>\n

Jankowicz never complained when Twitter suppressed all links to New York Post articles before the 2020 election. But when rumors circulated in April that Elon Musk might buy Twitter, she fretted to National Public Radio: \u201cI shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

That line is the Rosetta stone for understanding the new Disinformation Governance Board. The goal is not \u201ctruth\u201d \u2014 which could arise from the clash of competing opinions. Instead, political overlords need power to exert pressure and pull to shape Americans\u2019 beliefs by discrediting, if not totally suppressing, disapproved opinions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When DHS revealed that the disinformation board was being placed on hold, it also announced that former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff was brought in to review and assess the board\u2019s mission. Chertoff was assistant attorney general helping organize the mass roundup of 1,200 Muslims after the 9\/11 attacks. On November 28, 2001, Chertoff testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee: \u201cNobody is held incommunicado. We don\u2019t hold people in secret, you know, cut off from lawyers, cut off from the public, cut off from their family and friends.\u201d That was total disinformation, and the Bush administration\u2019s secrecy was later condemned. In August 2002, Chertoff condemned Bush administration critics: \u201cYou should not think you\u2019re dealing with a bunch of barbarians\u2026.We need to be sober about what is a threat to civil liberties.\u201d But, as The Nation magazine noted, \u201cChertoff is notorious for enabling some of the most egregious offenses of the War on Terrorism \u2014 from federal surveillance, to unlawful detention, to torture. Indeed, his previous governmental appointments were met with vociferous opposition from groups like Human Rights Watch and the ACLU.\u201d When he was DHS boss, Chertoff championed REAL ID and portrayed it as a total surveillance system \u2014 even for babysitters. The Nation magazine declared that placing \u201ca man as deeply tainted as Chertoff into a leadership position smacks of a particularly indolent kind of contempt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDisinformation\u201d is often simply the lag time between the pronouncement and the debunking of government falsehoods.<\/strong> In early 2003, anyone who denied that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction was guilty of disinformation \u2014 until after George W. Bush\u2019s Iraq invasion found no WMDs. It was disinformation that Obama\u2019s drone assassination program was killing large number of innocent civilians \u2014 until Daniel Hale courageously leaked internal documents proving the killing spree. (Hale will spend years in federal prison as a reward for undermining the credibility of this particular disinformation.)<\/p>\n

Federal agencies have deluged Americans with malarkey for decades. We don\u2019t need a disinformation czar to hector us to submit to the latest Washington catechism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The core of the media defense of Jankowicz was that only right-wing nuts fear the U.S. government would censor Americans.<\/strong> But it is already happening. The Biden White House threatened antitrust investigations against social media companies that failed to suppress \u201cdisinformation\u201d about COVID vaccines. On March 3, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy \u201cdemanded that the tech companies turn over information about individuals who spread\u201d COVID \u201cmisinformation,\u201d the New Civil Liberties Alliance reported. Last year, it was \u201cdisinformation\u201d to claim that vaccines fail to prevent contracting or transmitting COVID. But after the Omicron wave, the phrase \u201cbreakthrough infection\u201d became almost redundant.<\/p>\n

The Disinformation Governance Board debacle could not have occurred unless many policymakers felt entitled to control the information Americans receive. Jankowicz\u2019s arrogance was invisible to the Biden team because that arrogance is shared by them. She is part of a niche that assumes they are so superior that they have the right to censor \u2014 or at least the right to control what other people think. In the 1960s, the \u201cbest and the brightest\u201d had the right to lie Americans into the Vietnam War \u2014 for the good of the world. The same type of people now infest Washington and believe they have the right to censor.
\nThe new Cold War \u2014 in Ukraine<\/p>\n

Targeting Russian issues would have been a prime topic for the new board. After she resigned, Jankowicz touted the disinformation fight by other federal agencies: \u201cTake a look at the recent work to prebunk [pre-debunk] Russian narratives about Ukraine. It focused on raising awareness of the falsities coming out of the Kremlin so Americans wouldn\u2019t buy into them. It worked.\u201d<\/p>\n

It \u201cworked\u201d in the sense that the vast majority of the American media has uncritically recited what they have been told about the conflict by U.S. government and Ukrainian official<\/strong>s. But the U.S. government has withheld almost all information it possesses on the battlefield losses of the Ukrainian army, thus helping perpetuate \u201cGhost of Kiev\u201d types of fantasies about how the conflict is going. On May 27, the Washington Post reported that Ukrainian military \u201ccasualties here are largely kept secret to protect morale among troops and the general public\u201d \u2014 and American citizens. U.S. officials have also passed on information to the media regarding the conflict that was unverified or even doubtful. At the same time, many politicians have joined a media chorus to denounce as Russian propaganda any suggestion that the war is something less than a glorious triumph of good over evil.<\/p>\n

U.S. government agencies poured money into the coffers of Ukrainian government agencies, including the office of Lyudmila Denisova, the commissioner for human rights. Denisova spurred hundreds of lurid western media reports about Russian troops on rape rampages, targeting even young babies. But on May 30, the Ukrainian parliament tossed her out of her job because there was no evidence for many of her allegations. Until the moment that Denisova was fired, denying Russian troops were mass raping Ukrainian females was \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Few Americans recognize how surreal the notion of \u201ctruth\u201d has become inside the Beltway.<\/strong> On April 28, the White House appealed to Congress to provide another massive aid package to Ukraine, including hefty provisions to \u201csupport activists, journalists, and independent media to defend freedom of expression.\u201d And how can we be sure that Ukrainian journalists are independent? Because U.S. government officials retain the sales receipt for their purchase. Unfortunately, the State Department, the National Endowment for Democracy, and other agencies have been avidly subsidizing \u201cindependent media\u201d in foreign nations for years, assuring that there will be an \u201camen chorus\u201d for U.S. intervention in their nations if deemed necessary. The absurdity of such grants doesn\u2019t register in D.C., in part because so many policymakers are blinded by the presumed righteousness of U.S. policy. As Secretary of State Madeline Albright said, \u201cWe are the indispensable nation\u2026. We see further into the future.\u201d Thus, handouts from the U.S. government are the truest source of independence \u2014 or some such hokum.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if Biden\u2019s disinformation campaigns on Ukraine and Russia succeed in dragging our nation into World War Three. The United States funds foreign propaganda operations that echo in American newspapers and cable news, and the White House exploits those stories to drag this nation further into an East European border dispute.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The federal government has long been the most dangerous source of disinformation threatening Americans.<\/strong> The trillions of pages of new secrets that the U.S. government creates each year is a disinformation entitlement program. In a city that already had hundreds of full-time political appointees whose task is to lie to the America public, why was another board needed? Admittedly, calling it the Disinformation Governance Board is more palatable than naming it the Keep Damn Federal Lies Sacrosanct Panel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article was originally published in the August 2022 edition of Future of Freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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