Elon Musk, others respond to Biden administration's disinformation board

President Joe Biden and his administration have made an announcement that has many free speech advocates frightened, and it happened just days after Elon Musk purchased the Twitter platform in an effort to bring back free speech.

On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified that the administration has created a Disinformation Governance Board to fight online disinformation and said that it will be led by Undersecretary for Policy Rob Silvers and principal deputy general counsel Jennifer Gaskill, Fox News reported. He quipped to members of Congress:

"The goal is to bring the resources of the department together to address this threat. I just read a very interesting study that underscores the importance of the point that you make, the spread of mis- and disinformation in minority communities specifically, and we are focused on that in the context of our CP3 and other efforts, and I'd be pleased to share more."

During a press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the administration supports the new board.

White House correspondent Jaqui Heinrich said:

"Secretary Mayorkas said that part of its intention was to tackle misinformation in Hispanic communities especially. Can you give us an idea of what this board is going to be doing, what their authority would look like?"

Psaki responded:

"I really haven't dug into this exactly. I mean, we, of course, support this effort, but let me see if I can get more specifics. We know that there has been a range of disinfo out there about a range of topics — I mean, including COVID, for example, and also elections and eligibility. But I will — I will check and see if there's more specifics.

"There's been some criticism of the person who's been chosen to oversee this board. She had previously called the Hunter Biden laptop a 'Trump campaign product,' seeming to discredit its validity — or validity of reporting surrounding that."

Heinrich retorted:

"How can you assuage concerns of people who are looking at this person who's been appointed to this position and wondering if she's going to be able to accurately judge misinformation now that a lot of that reporting has been proven to be factual in some ways?"

Psaki said:

"Well, I don't have any comments on the laptop. But what I can tell you is that it sounds like the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities. I'm not sure who opposes that effort, and I don't know who this individual is, so I have no comments on it specifically."

The critics were quick to shred the idea of, what many called the "Ministry of Truth."

One of the first to respond was Musk himself, in response to a tweet from Steven Crowder, when he called the news "Discomforting."

Reader Comments

ReRan · 2022-05-01T21:27:33Z

Is it my imagination, or is this train picking up speed?

Maxx Paine · 2022-05-01T21:31:36Z

ReRan 2 + 2 = 5.

Understand?

Winston Smith · 2022-05-01T23:47:07Z

Maxx Paine Winston Smith certainly understands.....

JTF Truth · 2022-05-02T01:18:34Z

ReRan It's Engineered that way.

DeliciousTears · 2022-05-02T01:31:27Z

There's a reason the story is so absurdly obvious.

BluLiteDancing · 2022-05-02T01:56:54Z

Homeland security was modeled on the East German Stasi & now we have a “Ministry of Truth” just like Bolshevik genocidal maniacs under Stalin.

Dwoods44 · 2022-05-02T11:58:20Z

The narrative is to regulate "misinformation". The intent is to censor information not supporting the puppet regime. Is the next step to eliminate Section 30, so the government Ministry of Truth can control all social media? Will we see the political arrests or disappearance of voices of truth regarding election fraud, child trafficking and pedophilia, Southern border invasion, Hunter's laptop of political and sexual corruption, the plandemic and future "viral fear" propaganda, and of course the "great narrative" "war for democracy and peace" in the Ukraine led by the heroic Azov NAZIs?

Artex · 2022-05-02T13:24:39Z

Missing from the article and most reporting is that the Biden administration has been working on this since January, which is when they first caught wind of a possible takeover of Twitter by Musk.

I love cosplaying and musicals, and this new truth minister reminds me of my friends... but I wouldn't want any of them in charge of policing disinformation either, and the irony is that she's spread a lot of disinformation herself.

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Buffalo_Ken · 2022-05-02T17:01:41Z

Ministry of Truth - Glory Be!

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:'(

Message and Date: Listen - 5222 - 1300

To: All you fools out there know nothing about "misinformation"

From: Ministry of Truth for Christ's sake you miscreants .....

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Now, when the Ministry of Truth declares publicly something to be truthful then there can be no doubt.

Lesson #1.

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Learn it.