Former Hawaiian MP Tulsi Gabbard has suggested that former President Barack Obama is behind the effort to establish a Misinformation Governance Council, which he likened to George Orwell’s famous “Truth Ministry.” “Biden is just a frontrunner,” Gabbard wrote on Twitter on Sunday. Obama, April 21: Social media censors “do not go far enough”, so the government must intervene to get the job done. Six days later, Homeland Security creates the “Ministry of Truth” (also known as the Governing Council). Misinformation). “ DEMOPOULOS ACCUSE THE MAYOR OF INCREASING “LEGAL CRITICISM” WITH “MISINFORMATION” COUNCIL, DEMAND INFORMATION Gabard, a Democrat, referred to Obama’s speech at Stanford University last week, where he argued that technology companies find it difficult to mediate content on their own and called for more oversight. “The good news now is that almost all the big tech platforms are now recognizing some responsibility for content on their platforms and investing in a large group of people to watch it,” Obama said during the speech. “Given the sheer volume of content, this strategy may seem like a Whac-A-Mole game.” Obama said he believed company employees were “honest” in trying to curb violent content and hate speech, but said more needed to be done to help companies curb such posts. Former President Barack Obama (Getty Images) “But while content moderation can limit the distribution of clearly dangerous content, it does not go far enough,” Obama said. Obama’s comments come after the Biden administration set up a Homeland Security-administered Misinformation Governance Council to combat cyberbullying. “The goal is to mobilize its resources (DHS) to address this threat,” Homeland Security Minister Alejandro Mallorca told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on Wednesday. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (AP Photo / Jose Luis Magana) CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Mayorkas added that the board would focus heavily on restricting the spread of misinformation in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections, but critics have expressed concern about the implications of the board’s freedom of speech. “The federal government has no business setting up a Department of Truth,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Said last week, using the same board name as Gabbard. “The ‘Misinformation Council’ of the Ministry of Homeland Security is unconstitutional and anti-American, and I will present a bill to repay it.”
