Tag: Nina Jankowicz

DHS Secretary Says He Wasn’t Aware of Disinformation Board Leader’s Background

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on May 4 that at the time the DHS hired Nina Jankowicz to lead the newly created Disinformation Governance Board, he wasn’t aware of the videos of her singing or her false claims about Russiagate and other issues. Since the DHS’s April 27 announcement of the Disinformation Governance…


Mayorkas Claims Disinformation Governance Board Misrepresented, ‘Not About Speech,’ But Violence

Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has admitted that he fared poorly in communicating the purpose of the department’s newly created Disinformation Governance Board, which critics have lambasted as a threat to free speech. The board has been created to address disinformation which poses a “security threat to the homeland,” Mayorkas said…


Homeland Security Secretary Defends Disinformation Board and Its Newly Appointed Leader

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his agency’s move to create a so-called Disinformation Governance Board after it faced widespread criticism that it was tantamount to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth.” In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Mayorkas said the new DHS panel would not be used to monitor American citizens and praised…