Quick as she got here, the
Mary Poppins
of Disinformation unfurled her umbrella and floated away to her subsequent job, nannying one other nation of youngsters who had the incorrect concepts.
Nina Jankowicz,
age 33, was supposed to steer the Department of Homeland Security’s new Disinformation Governance Board.
Only three weeks after that announcement, media stories say the board is being “paused” and Ms. Jankowicz has resigned. It isn’t troublesome to see why. “You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation,” she tweeted last year, with a video of herself singing modified music lyrics to “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”
She also tweeted that she hoped “the adtech industry stops placing ads for masks and worse (straight up disinfo!) on articles and info about coronavirus.” That was in March 2020 when masks had been dismissed, shortly earlier than they had been required. She mentioned
Hunter Biden’s
laptop computer needs to be seen “as a Trump campaign product.” In 2016 she tweeted this conspiracy concept: “Trump had not one, but two secret email servers to communicate w/ influential Russian bank. Unbelievable.” Disinformation physician, refute thyself.
Homeland Security says the board has been “grossly and intentionally mischaracterized: it was never about censorship or policing speech in any manner.” It wasn’t even meant to have “operational capability.”
Even if that is true, a board that appears like a authorities fact-checker was a awful concept positive to feed public distrust. Why did benign explanations take so lengthy to reach? And why rent Ms. Jankowicz, a Democratic partisan with a document of defining disinformation as political info or opinions she doesn’t like? Surely Homeland Security has a number of succesful bureaucrats who may observe overseas disinformation in an apolitical method.
The entire episode has been comedic, apart from that the federal government wasted your tuppence organising a board that may in all probability by no means function. Or no less than the viewers at dwelling have to be hoping there’s not a sequel.
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Appeared within the May 19, 2022, print version as ‘The Disinformation Board, Disavowed.’
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