They couldn’t handle the truth.
The Biden administration has “paused” its controversial plans to create a Disinformation Board, causing its would-be leader to resign, according to a report Wednesday.
The Washington Post reported that the Department of Homeland Security decided to scrap the idea Monday after weeks of backlash from Republicans, libertarians and even some liberals, who likened the scheme to the Ministry of Truth from George Orwell’s classic novel “1984.”
The outlet added that “disinformation expert” Nina Jankowicz, who was tapped to head the board, had drafted a resignation letter as of Tuesday morning but was given the option to stay on in a call with DHS officials that evening. The outlet later updated its report to say that Jankowicz had resigned from DHS.
The Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but a spokesperson whined to the Washington Post that Jankowicz “has been subjected to unjustified and vile personal attacks and physical threats” and called her “eminently qualified.”
The board had a mandate to fight the spread of “disinformation” that “can affect border security, Americans’ safety during disasters, and public trust in our democratic institutions.”
However, Jankowicz’s idea of standing up for truth included letting “verified” Twitter users “edit” other users’ tweets if the blue-checked chosen think they’re misleading.
Jankowicz also repeatedly tried to spread doubt about noti.group’s own reporting about Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop, telling the Associated Press in October 2020 that it should be viewed as “a Trump campaign product.”
The misinformation maven was also ripped for a bizarre TikTok performance from February 2021 in which she altered the lyrics to the “Mary Poppins” song “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” to be about fake news.
“Information laundering is really quite ferocious. It’s when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious, by saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet, so disinformation’s origins are slightly less atrocious,” she sang in the cringeworthy video.
[Written in collaboration with other media outlets with information from the following sources]
