Hawley explained: “As it turns out, the people that the Biden administration thinks are the real threat to America, it’s not the drug cartels, it’s not foreign threats. It’s you, it’s the American people. If you have questions about COVID, if you have questions about COVID masks, if you have questions about the COVID vaccine, this administration wanted you to be monitored, this disinformation board was set up to go after you that’s what the documents say, by the way, election integrity, same story.”
The board has been paused since mid-May after widespread critisism- but it's looking like another similar effort is arleady taking its place, this one with VP Harris at its helm.
According to the NY Post:
Another day, another White House “disinformation” task force.
The Biden administration on Thursday created a new internet policy task force — this one led by Vice President Kamala Harris — with goals including “developing programs and policies” to protect “political figures” and journalists from “disinformation,” “abuse” and “harassment.”
A presidential memorandum establishing the new task force describes a sweeping mission to protect people who seek out a role in public life from online critics.
“In the United States and around the world, women and LGBTQI+ political leaders, public figures, activists, and journalists are especially targeted by sexualized forms of online harassment and abuse, undermining their ability to exercise their human rights and participate in democracy, governance, and civic life,” the memo says. “Online abuse and harassment, which aim to preclude women from political decision-making about their own lives and communities, undermine the functioning of democracy.”
A presidential memorandum establishing the new task force describes a sweeping mission to protect people who seek out a role in public life from online critics.
“In the United States and around the world, women and LGBTQI+ political leaders, public figures, activists, and journalists are especially targeted by sexualized forms of online harassment and abuse, undermining their ability to exercise their human rights and participate in democracy, governance, and civic life,” the memo says. “Online abuse and harassment, which aim to preclude women from political decision-making about their own lives and communities, undermine the functioning of democracy.”
When asked about this new task force, Karine Jean-Pierre struggled to explain how this is any difference from the widely mocked "Disinformation Governance Board."
The task forces' members include DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, AG Merrick Garland, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
A reporter asked “On a background call last night, we were told that it’s going to be different from the Disinformation Governance Board and that it’s going to focus on illegal conduct online, but the memo creating it was a little bit broader and mentioned — and I’m quoting from the document, quote, ‘Online harassment, abuse, and disinformation campaigns targeting women and LGBTQI+ individuals who are public and political figures.’ Can you clear the disinformation charges —”
Jean-Pierre then plead ignorance. “So, I would need to talk to her team. I was not on the background call. So that specific language that you’re — you’re providing to me, I would just have to check in with her. I would also encourage you to check — to check as well with her — her team. I can’t say more because I — I wasn’t on the background call.”
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Hopefully VP Harris is at good at this job as she was at Border Czar.
Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
