DHS ‘Disinformation Board’ Poised to Block Russian Threats
The Department of Homeland Security has created a new Disinformation Governance Board to counter disinformation coming from Russia, as well as misleading information circulated by human smugglers aimed to entice migrants.
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The Department of Homeland Security has created a new Disinformation Governance Board to counter disinformation coming from Russia aimed at undermining this year’s midterm elections, reports the Associated Press. The board, to be led by disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, who has researched Russian misinformation tactics and online harassment, will also counter misleading information circulated by human smugglers aimed to entice migrants across trhe border. Dozens of Republican lawmakers and pundits took to social media to widely criticize the new board as an attack on American free speech and called for it to be disbanded.
