Biden’s Hopeless Disinformation Police

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Here comes the Department of Homeland Security — that heavily funded guardian of our national borders, enforcer of the immigration laws, preventer of terrorism, protector of U.S. coastal waters, keeper of cybersecurity and coordinator of disaster preparedness —
with yet another sweeping assignment. On Wednesday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced at a House hearing the formation of a Disinformation Governance BoardThe board will battle disinformation.

nformation on the Biden administration’s war on disinformation proved scarce. When the Associated Press asked DHS for an interview for details, the department stiffed them, according to the AP’s April 28 story. The next afternoon, a reporter asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki for more about the board at a presser, and she was pretty vacant, too. “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.”

The press did pry out of DHS the board’s goal to contest disinformation crafted by Russia as well as the general disinformation (authors unstated) that had deceived immigrants from Haiti and other places that the U.S. southern border was open. Republicans like Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and conservative media like the Washington Times flipped out at the announcement, dusting off their Orwell and combing out their fright-wigs to warn of an impending DHS crackdown on not just free speech but free thinking. “This is dangerous and un-American,” Hawley said in a statement. “The board should be immediately dissolved.”

The idea that the Biden administration would pulp the First Amendment and institute an authoritarian regime through its agents at DHS is immediately dismissible if only because it is one of the most ineffectual departments in the president’s Cabinet.
Had Biden given the task to Agriculture or Commerce or another department with a better GPA in governing, we should be afraid. But DHS couldn’t stamp out disinformation or erect an American Reich if we reallocated to it all of the arms we’re currently shipping to Ukraine.

It’s peopled by a confederacy of dunces and botch-artists, incapable of carrying out its current mission. For instance, DHS shrugged off the Jan. 6 warning signs, according to a Government Accountability Office report. It failed to share intelligence about the wave of Haitian immigrants who breached the border in 2021. The department is so riddled with “copycat” programs that duplicate duties handled by other federal agencies, Dara Lind argued in Vox, that it should be abolished, a view held by many. In 2020, former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wrote an op-ed regretting having midwifed it with her Senate vote.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/29/dont-trust-the-government-00029103
 
But never mind DHS. Who among us thinks the government should add to its work list the job of determining what is true and what is disinformation? And who thinks the government is capable of telling the truth?
Our government produces lies and disinformation at industrial scale and always has. It overclassifies vital information to block its own citizens from becoming any the wiser.

Making the federal government the official custodian of truth would be like Brink’s giving a safe-cracker a job driving an armored car. On top of that, who is going to accept DHS’ determinations?

Not reporters, who are accustomed to government lies. Not the man in the street. Certainly not the so-called low-information voters the government would like to diaper and stuff into an escape-proof playpen. By conjuring the Disinformation Governance Board into existence, the Biden administration will give itself a referee’s power to declare some things completely out of bounds. Without stepping out on the slippery slope, that would give Biden’s people the power to find some things dangerous or objectionable. After branding something disinformation, it’s only a short slide to suppressing the contested information or replacing it with what Kellyanne Conway fancifully called “alternative facts.”
 
dukkha said:
Here comes the Department of Homeland Security — that heavily funded guardian of our national borders, enforcer of the immigration laws, preventer of terrorism, protector of U.S. coastal waters, keeper of cybersecurity and coordinator of disaster preparedness —
with yet another sweeping assignment. On Wednesday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced at a House hearing the formation of a Disinformation Governance BoardThe board will battle disinformation.

nformation on the Biden administration’s war on disinformation proved scarce. When the Associated Press asked DHS for an interview for details, the department stiffed them, according to the AP’s April 28 story. The next afternoon, a reporter asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki for more about the board at a presser, and she was pretty vacant, too. “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.”

The press did pry out of DHS the board’s goal to contest disinformation crafted by Russia as well as the general disinformation (authors unstated) that had deceived immigrants from Haiti and other places that the U.S. southern border was open. Republicans like Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and conservative media like the Washington Times flipped out at the announcement, dusting off their Orwell and combing out their fright-wigs to warn of an impending DHS crackdown on not just free speech but free thinking. “This is dangerous and un-American,” Hawley said in a statement. “The board should be immediately dissolved.”

The idea that the Biden administration would pulp the First Amendment and institute an authoritarian regime through its agents at DHS is immediately dismissible if only because it is one of the most ineffectual departments in the president’s Cabinet.
Had Biden given the task to Agriculture or Commerce or another department with a better GPA in governing, we should be afraid. But DHS couldn’t stamp out disinformation or erect an American Reich if we reallocated to it all of the arms we’re currently shipping to Ukraine.

It’s peopled by a confederacy of dunces and botch-artists, incapable of carrying out its current mission. For instance, DHS shrugged off the Jan. 6 warning signs, according to a Government Accountability Office report. It failed to share intelligence about the wave of Haitian immigrants who breached the border in 2021. The department is so riddled with “copycat” programs that duplicate duties handled by other federal agencies, Dara Lind argued in Vox, that it should be abolished, a view held by many. In 2020, former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) wrote an op-ed regretting having midwifed it with her Senate vote.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/29/dont-trust-the-government-00029103
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Speaking of hopeless and projecting atrocities of your beloved former lawlessly hacked in tyrant tRump who was on a disinformation campaign at using fake news and other media outlets of the sewer and his dumbass and brainwashed cult followers to wage war on Democracy at doing the bidding of foreign enemies and the enemy from within:

How Trump's disinformation campaign about 2020 presidential election spreads a dangerous message

SUMMARY
It was his first political rally in Iowa as a former president, but Donald Trump spent much of this weekend’s visit spreading a dangerous message: Sowing doubt unjustifiably, once again, about last year’s presidential election. Some of the state’s most prominent Republicans were in attendance.

FIVE FACTS
Who are Chuck Grassley and Steve Scalise?
What did Grassley say about Donald Trump’s actions during the 2020 election versus what is he saying now regarding Trump’s endorsement?
When and Where did Trump hold his rally over the weekend?
How does Trump’s disinformation campaign affect democracy and trust in the electoral system?

FOCUS QUESTIONS
Why do you think Trump is so popular among members of the Republican party?
Why do you think Rep. Steve Scalise avoided directly answering the question by Fox News’ Chris Wallace?
In Yamiche Alcindor’s report she says, “Donald Trump in Iowa, it’s a familiar sight from past campaigns, but, this time, he coupled grievances against Democrats with yet more lies about the 2020 election that he lost.” How important is it for news reporters to be explicit (clear) in stating that there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election?

FOR MORE
For more on President Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, and the long-term effects on trust and polarized perceptions of election integrity, watch the following report from Amna Nawaz.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classr...dential-election-spreads-a-dangerous-message/
 
gemini104104 said:
Speaking of hopeless and projecting atrocities of your beloved former lawlessly hacked in tyrant tRump who was on a disinformation campaign at using fake news and other media outlets of the sewer and his dumbass and brainwashed cult followers to wage war on Democracy at doing the bidding of foreign enemies and the enemy from within:

How Trump's disinformation campaign about 2020 presidential election spreads a dangerous message

SUMMARY
It was his first political rally in Iowa as a former president, but Donald Trump spent much of this weekend’s visit spreading a dangerous message: Sowing doubt unjustifiably, once again, about last year’s presidential election. Some of the state’s most prominent Republicans were in attendance.

FIVE FACTS
Who are Chuck Grassley and Steve Scalise?
What did Grassley say about Donald Trump’s actions during the 2020 election versus what is he saying now regarding Trump’s endorsement?
When and Where did Trump hold his rally over the weekend?
How does Trump’s disinformation campaign affect democracy and trust in the electoral system?

FOCUS QUESTIONS
Why do you think Trump is so popular among members of the Republican party?
Why do you think Rep. Steve Scalise avoided directly answering the question by Fox News’ Chris Wallace?
In Yamiche Alcindor’s report she says, “Donald Trump in Iowa, it’s a familiar sight from past campaigns, but, this time, he coupled grievances against Democrats with yet more lies about the 2020 election that he lost.” How important is it for news reporters to be explicit (clear) in stating that there was no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election?

FOR MORE
For more on President Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, and the long-term effects on trust and polarized perceptions of election integrity, watch the following report from Amna Nawaz.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classr...dential-election-spreads-a-dangerous-message/
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Who gives a shit what Trump thinks? He's not in office. He's not setting up a censorship board crammed with a bunch of radical Leftist lunatics who are going to start deciding what you can and cannot say. Biden's action is one of the most totalitarian in the whole history of the United States and idiots like you are whining about Trump?
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Who gives a shit what Trump thinks? He's not in office. He's not setting up a censorship board crammed with a bunch of radical Leftist lunatics who are going to start deciding what you can and cannot say. Biden's action is one of the most totalitarian in the whole history of the United States and idiots like you are whining about Trump?
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Who is who? Justice should never forget what tRump thinks and his actions at attempting to destroy the legitimacy of another election in his hell bound favor at giving aid to foreign enemies and the enemy fom within, and at keeping the crusade of justice in motion. This until tRump and his repuke co-conspires are delivered to justice to be served on them as a consequence of waging war on Democracy, society and the law.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Who gives a shit what Trump thinks? He's not in office. He's not setting up a censorship board crammed with a bunch of radical Leftist lunatics who are going to start deciding what you can and cannot say. Biden's action is one of the most totalitarian in the whole history of the United States and idiots like you are whining about Trump?
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BINGO! If Trump had done this these guys would be having strokes.
 
gemini104104 said:
Who is who? Justice should never forget what tRump thinks and his actions at attempting to destroy the legitimacy of another election in his hell bound favor at giving aid to foreign enemies and the enemy fom within, and at keeping the crusade of justice in motion. This until tRump and his repuke co-conspires are delivered to justice to be served on them as a consequence of waging war on Democracy, society and the law.
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Could somebody translate this into English?
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Could somebody translate this into English?
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Trump Republicans are terrified of new government initiative to fight Russian misinformation

The entire Republican brand has been built on a wobbly foundation of vile lies and exaggerations. It has to be. How else do you convince people that cruelly suppressing flows of immigrants to a country that faces both short- and long-term labor shortages is a good idea? Or that harassing gay and trans kids and the companies that support them somehow makes up for scuttling a child tax credit that would vastly improve the lives of tens of millions of parents in this country?

Without Russian lies and misinformation, it’s a safe bet Donald Trump would have spent recent years snorting Adderall out of his carpet until his brain bled, repeatedly bragging about passing dementia tests, and tweeting incomprehensible nonsense from his toilet. Which is pretty much what he did anyway, of course—but he would have been doing it on his own time, and in his own home, not forcing us to observe every lurid plot twist in his profane horror show. And his toilet would likely have been powerful enough to completely flush all his embarrassing errors and revolting secrets, up to and including Eric.

So it stands to reason that conservatives would freak about a new initiative to counter the disinformation upon which they rely."


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...MnHsnH1HgDWoEnvnKqkW9UEBzkmpgEVp8v4N2J3F84WlU
 
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