CNN’s Brian Stelter fiercely defended the Biden administration’s ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ over the weekend; calling the creation of the agency “common sense!”
“The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a Disinformation Governance Board… This has been mostly a ‘Fox World’ story. People don’t know what it is and what it isn’t… There’s a lot of right-wing uproar,” said Stelter.
“That sounds like common sense. But there’s an incredible backlash to something that sounds like basic government bureaucracy,” he added.
“This has been mostly a Fox World story,” @BrianStelter ridicules “a lot of right wing uproar” over DHS “Disinformation Governance Board.” It “sounds like common sense, but when I Google this all I see is like ‘Joe Biden’s Ministry of Truth’…” pic.twitter.com/znNTqeZapK
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 (@BrentHBaker) May 1, 2022
DHS Chief Alejandro Mayorkas defended the board during an interview over the weekend with Fox News.
“This is a working group that takes best practices to make sure that, in addressing disinformation that presents a threat to the homeland, our work does not infringe on free speech, does not infringe on civil rights, civil liberties,” he continued. “It’s not about speech, it’s about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. You know, an individual has the free speech right to spew anti-Semitic rhetoric. What they don’t have the right to do is take hostages in a synagogue, and that’s where we get involved.”
Watch Stelter’s comments above.
Stelter do you know where you live. This is america where anyone can say whatever they want, where ever they want to anyone they want anytime they want as long as they don’t (yell fire in a crowded room.) Further more the only people i know that are hurting people because of what they say is the people who follow people like you, antifa, black lives matter and nut cases who think it’s ok to destroy a person who thinks like i do. Take away their jobs, homes, bank accounts is ok with you and your extremist friends. This is america and your and your ilk will not take away our rights. I hope every person in this country sues this idiot president and his nazi bureau. btw, words cannot be violent. they are only words. the word violent denotes an action. it is not the action itself. grow up and use a dictionary
The DHS fact sheet:
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/05/02/fact-sheet-dhs-internal-working-group-protects-free-speech-other-fundamental-rights
This is an unnecessary addition to the existing bureaucracy. Each arm of the federal government has, or should have, media liaisons to combat misinformation being spread about their specific department. CBP can “counter disinformation that cartels and human smugglers spread to migrants” without an additional department in between. FEMA is more than capable of correcting “false information about the safety of drinking water and the location of shelters”. The State Department should be able to combat disinformation being spread by foreign governments.
My biggest fear is what this department will do once a republican administration is back in power. The last administration was known for pushing “alternative facts” and denying reality through the lens of “fake news”. It seems to me that this would simply become a federally-sanctioned propaganda machine for the presidency.
Have a lovely day everyone!