JOSH HAWLEY: They've been pressuring private companies and really colluding with them to censor domestic speech, to censor American citizens, political speech on everything from COVID, to mask mandates, to CRT, to the war in Ukraine, all of it. We can't believe that it would have come to this. MIKE JOHNSON: It's something that sounds surreal. Now we're learning a lot more about what they plan to do, in fact, have done to censor the speech of American citizens. TUCKER CARLSON : This year, the Biden administration plans to launch a disinformation board. It was called the Disinformation Governance Board.Īnd from the moment the board was made public, Fox News and members of Congress who make regular appearances on Fox absolutely hated it. MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: A little over a year ago, the United States Department of Homeland Security created an advisory board to offer guidance on how to counter disinformation threats to national security. Author of How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back. Former fellow at the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Wilson Center.

Former head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board. Nina Jankowicz, vice president at the UK-based Centre for Information Resilience. Today, On Point: What happened to Nina Jankowicz when Fox News came for her.

Then, her social media feeds were flooded with death threats. 'And for the past year, we've been dealing with threats, harassment and worse.'įirst, the onslaught came from Fox News. 'Last year, when I was appointed to lead a body within the Department of Homeland Security to counter disinformation, disinformation and hate speech came for. Nina Jankowicz is an expert on disinformation. She also joined us in April last year, just after the publication of her book 'How to be a Woman Online.'

Listen: Nina Jankowicz joined us ahead of the 2020 election to talk about Russian disinformation. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here.

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