Nina Jankowicz is smarter than the rest of us. That’s how she rose to be director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board.
“Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works,” Jankowicz told the House Foreign Affairs South and Central Asia Subcommittee in a hearing about the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), which the Obama administration set up to fight foreign disinformation and misinformation but was used to target U.S. social media users instead.
“GEC officials were largely concerned with domestic, English-language accounts — people with no ties to terror groups or relationships with adversary nations like Iran, China or Russia,” said Matt Taibbi, who exposed much of the Biden censorship regime in his extensive review of the Twitter files.
“The American government has no role in protecting citizens from speech,” he went on. “The whole idea of the system that was designed by Jefferson and Madison is that the American people view each other as adults who are capable of sorting out the truth for themselves.”
Jankowicz does not believe that.
"Disinformation expert" Nina Jankowicz: @mtaibbi doesn't know what he's talking about.
"There was NO CENSORSHIP going on at the Global Engagement Center at the State Department!"
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