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Biden's would-be disinformation chief, Nina Jankowicz, registers as a foreign agent
By Monica ShowalterSure, you might think, it was "only" the U.K., which is America's closest ally. Fine and dandy. But also recall that the U.K. has been the nest of some of the most scurrilous meddling into our electoral affairs -- with the completely fabricated Steele dossier a U.K. operation done by Christopher Steele, a former U.K. intelligence official. You can bet that Jankowicz is not serving as a registered foreign agent for the Nigel Farage group of Brits. Odds are, she may be in with the Steele crowd, which, ironically, is probably the most famous purveyor of disinformation.
Pollak notes that Jankowicz has already spread around quite a bit of this disinformation herself:
...as has the Washington Examiner:
There was this, too, from Offensively Patriotic:
Does it strike anyone as just a little odd that someone who has a propensity to hector the public about "national security," and claim everything that excites her as a leftist is a matter of national security, national-security this, national-security that, "patriotism," and "protecting Constitutional rights" suddenly has no problem climbing aboard to shill for a foreign entity if the price is right?
Her patriotism talk was an act. Now the mask is off and she's headed for some new project to figure out how to shut down even more conservative voices. She's a censor without a country. Don't be surprised if she keeps moving toward more such countries in the future. Let's just say that in the long run, she's digging to China.
Nina Jankowicz Fundraiser to Sue Fox News for ‘Harm They Do’ Gets Off to a Slow Start
Failed “Disinformation Governance Board” (DGB) executive director Nina Jankowicz was an absolute fruit loop from the start, with her attacks on both the First Amendment and concerned parents setting off all kinds of alarm bells, in addition to the public learning in the first place that the Biden administration had created the U.S. equivalent of the “Ministry of Truth.”
Between all that, a Twitter feed chock full of pro-lock the country down sentiment, and her own forays into spreading disinformation, the backlash was swift and loud, with the Biden administration’s Dept. of Homeland Security ultimately hitting “pause” on the DGB and Jankowicz resigning in disgrace.
After the GOP retook control of the House, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) was made Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which now contains the “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” which is also chaired by Jordan.
The House Judiciary Committee fired off a letter to Jankowicz and her attorneys earlier this week in which Jordan tore into their claims that, in a nutshell, she doesn’t have to provide them with the information that they seek:
A day later, Jankowicz appears to have created a “GoFundMe” account, specifically to sue Fox News, which she blames for allegedly spreading “malicious, reckless lies about me” and putting her in the position she is now:
‘A surreal experience’: Former Biden ‘disinfo’ chief details harassment
But that was just the beginning, she said, detailing for the first time a year of intense public and online harassment spurred, she said, by conservative media attacks and emblemized by the self-styled citizen-journalist who repeatedly stalked her, doxxing and recording her without her consent.
“It was a surreal experience to be forced to confront this guy,” Jankowicz told POLITICO in an interview. In one video, she says, the man said her newborn should be put in “baby jail.
Now, it looks like Jankowicz will be back in the spotlight. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) plans to make Jankowicz a star witness before his new Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Government, which Republicans say will investigate alleged abuses of federal authority. On Monday, Jordan issued a subpoena compelling Jankowicz to sit for a deposition and Jankowicz says she will abide by it.
Jankowicz says her story shows what can happen to any private citizen or government official who gets cast as a villain in a far-right conspiracy plot. “I didn’t intend for my entire career to be lit on fire before my eyes by taking this job,” she said.
Suck It Up Buttercup .... Democrats did worse to Trump Admin Officials
Recording her without her consent .... no privacy expectations in public
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Why would they do that? They didn't hire her for her skill, they hired her for her public persona so they could be seen to be doing something. Why would you do that on the down-low?
Ukraine payback .
Former Minister of Truth continually attacked by the Right makes TIME's top 100 people in AI
We haven't checked TIME Magazine's whole lists of the 100 most influential people in AI yet so we don't know if Vice President Kamala Harris, who's been pegged by the White House to keep an eye on artificial intelligence and sat down with some of America's leaders in tech to discuss it.
Omri Ceren was amused to see former Minister of Truth Nina Jankowicz on the list. She's got a new gig now as vice president for the Center for Information Resilience. She's also a master of disinformation and dismissed Hunter Biden's laptop as "a fairytale" about a computer repair shop.
Snake in the Grass Nina Jankowicz Returns With Perfectly Named 'Disinformation' Think Tank
You know it's a presidential election year when the 'disinformation experts' begin to rear their ugly heads again.
And when it comes to ugly heads, there are few worse than disgraced former Biden Disinformation Czar, Nina Jankowicz. It's difficult to imagine how bad our society has gotten when there are people in power who actually want to take seriously a person who has referred to herself -- unironically -- as the 'Mary Poppins of disinformation.'
Yet here we are.
Jankowicz's 'Ministry of Truth' in the Biden administration may have gone away, but you know she never will. Like any theater kid, she wouldn't know how to exist without constant attention. This week, she announced her co-founding of a non-profit 'disinformation think tank' and has already begun attacking Republican lawmakers through press releases. (It's funny how Democrats are never guilty of 'disinformation,' isn't it).
‘Mary Poppins Of Disinformation’ Returns With New Group To Defend Disinformation Industry
“The organization will investigate the networks and money driving disinformation and educate the public about the threats disinformation poses to their daily lives,” it says. “The first step in the group’s program will involve countering the organized campaign currently challenging the work of disinformation researchers.”
The group’s advisory board consists of Katie Harbath, a former Facebook executive, Emily Horne, a former National Security Council official, Ineke Mushovic of the gay advocacy group Movement Advancement Project, and Ben Wittes of the left-wing Brookings Institution, who was once described as the “bard of the deep state.”
Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos, the group’s co-founder, claims that “organized campaigns are preventing us from researching and understanding the threat of disinformation and organization an appropriate national response,” promising to “break the deadlocks holding us back.”
In 2022, Jankowicz was appointed by the Department of Homeland Security to lead an ill-fated body called the Disinformation Governance Board. An uproar over civil liberties ensued, including from 20 state attorneys general, with the Biden administration ultimately scrapping the idea. Jankowicz says the criticism of the board was, itself, misinformation.
Jankowicz had posted bizarre videos of herself singing about “disinformation,” referring to herself as the “Mary Poppins of disinformation.”
Media watch: Disinfo Jankowicz Won’t Combat
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour got her network to “ease up” on fact-checking, leading her to push a debunked “Hamas propaganda” about a “mass grave” in Khan Younis supposedly dug by Israelis, seethes Commentary’s Seth Mandel.It was an “actual disinformation campaign” — and so perfect timing for the return of Nina Jankowicz, who briefly headed a Biden “disinformation” board even though she’d bought into such campaigns herself.
Jankowicz’s American Sunlight group is on a “new crusade” — not to “combat” the kind of Hamas disinfo Amanpour spread, but to probe how “Republican legislators have made it easier to be mean to women” on the Internet.
The entire Israel-Hamas war has been “infused with reporters’ startlingly unethical allegiance” to Hamas propaganda — yet it “gets a pass” from the “disinformationists.”
Joe’s working-class hispanic problem, disinfo Jankowicz won’t combat, and other commentary
In 2020, Joe Biden’s Hispanic margin over Trump was 23 points — down from “Clinton’s 39-point margin” in 2016 — but today his “margin over Trump among Latinos is a slim 9 points,” notes Ruy Teixeir…
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That makes it sound as though Judge Connolly dismissed the suit on a technicality. That technicality exists, but the larger problem is that the statements that Jankowicz claimed to be lies were in fact were "substantially true." That applies to all of the statements that the so-called disinformation expert claimed to be false, Connolly concludes in his ruling:
Accordingly, Judge Connolly dismissed the complaint on several bases, including the non-applicability of New York defamation law to the issues in the lawsuit. However, Connolly mainly dismissed it because Fox's statements were not just almost entirely about the Disinformation Governance Board rather than Jankowicz personally, but that those statements were substantially true.
In other words, Joe Biden's erstwhile Disinformation Czar has trafficked in ... disinformation.
Now, nuisance lawsuits are hardly big news. Hunter Biden withdrew one against Fox News late yesterday after his father withdrew from the 2024 presidential race, and that would have been more interesting in court had it proceeded.
However, this result is well worth noting beyond the headline to emphasize the dangers of putting government in charge of "disinformation policing." The discernment of factual truth in a society with free speech belongs to the participants in the public square, not the government. The government too often has its own interests in mind and lots of incentive to curtail dissent and criticism. Jankowicz' lawsuit demonstrates her own specific unsuitability to run any Speech Police function, but far beyond that, why government is entirely unsuited for that role as well.
We dodged a bullet with Biden's Ministry of Truth effort, but that fight is not over. Too many in the federal bureaucracy, the Biden administration, Congress, and the media want Big Brother to police speech and dissent in the United States despite the explicit prohibition of such activity in the US Constitution. And all of them want government to silence any dissent and debate that exposes their lies.
