But Mayorkas acknowledged that the administration could have done a better job of communicating with the board, noting that it would look into misinformation from Russia, China and drug cartels in the United States when it is considered a threat to national security. Critics have criticized the board as a way for the federal government to restrict freedom of speech. CNN’s Dana Bash directly asked Mayorkas if American citizens would fall under DHS surveillance through the creation of the board. “It is not yet clear to me how this board will act and what it will do,” he told the Homeland Security chief. Mayorkas responded, “So what it is doing is ensuring that the way we deal with threats, the link between threats and acts of violence, is tackled without violating freedom of speech, the protection of civil rights and civil liberties. the right to privacy. “ DHS Secretary Alejandro Mallorca said the council would focus on misinformation about drug cartels and traffickers in the United States and foreign adversaries. AFP via Getty Images Bass urged: “Will American citizens be monitored?” The Mayor replied: “No, the board of directors has no operational power or capacity. “What it will do is gather best practices to deal with the threat of misinformation by foreign government opponents from the cartels and disseminate these best practices to those who have been working to address this threat for years.” He also guaranteed Nina Jankowicz, who was appointed to lead the board, as “excellent qualifications”. A bizarre TikTok video appeared last week by Jankowicz using Mary Poppins’ tune “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” to tackle misinformation. The forgery was widely criticized, as was its ability to investigate factual misinformation – as it was notoriously skeptical of The Post’s reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Nina Jankowicz was “extremely qualified” to lead the “misinformation” office. Critics of the misinformation bureau claim it will be used to infiltrate private lives and have called for its refinancing. “Certainly no American government would ever use government power to judge its citizens’ speech on the First Amendment. “Unfortunately, I was wrong,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) Wrote in DHS last week. “Instead of protecting our borders or our American homeland, you have chosen to make policing the American language your priority.” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mallorca said the council would gather best practices for dealing with cartels and other threats. AP Jankowicz, in her bizarre series as Mary Poppins in the February 2021 video, sang: “Information leaching is really wild. “It’s when a hacker gets some lies and makes them sound premature, telling them to Congress or to a dominant source, so the source of the misinformation is slightly less horrible,” he said. Longtime Republican Adviser Karl Rove told Fox News, “What the hell is going on here? Nina Jankowicz has been criticized for casting doubt on The Post’s Hunter Biden report. YouTube / LA TI DO “This is an important board. Its job is to help tackle the misinformation that is being fed in America by foreign actors, government and non-government. “And they put a political hack at his head.”
