'Not the opinion police': Misinformation board is latest headache for White House
WASHINGTON — Questions about whether a new Department of Homeland Security panel to combat misinformation will curb Americans’ free speech, and whether the woman named to run the board is too partisan for the position, have emerged as the latest headache for the Biden administration, which appeared to be unprepared for the controversy.
“I think we probably could have done a better job of communicating what it does and does not do,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted to Dana Bash of CNN, in one of several interviews he conducted on Sunday morning to explain why Americans should not be worried about what he came to describe as merely a “working group” to counter foreign influence campaigns.
But by then, the Orwellian narrative had spread far and wide.
The extensive effort at damage control was a tacit recognition that since Mayorkas somewhat casually mentioned the creation of the Disinformation Governance Board last Wednesday at a House budgetary hearing, the administration had not done enough to explain its function, letting imaginations run wild.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/not-the-opinion-police-misinformation-board-is-latest-headache-for-white-house/ar-AAWQooY
The tinfoil hat crowd will believe anything.
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