Media operatives on Saturday appeared to call for a government ministry of truth to save the public from “disinformation.”
The remarks were made on
MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” which on Saturday featured Nina Jankowicz as a guest. Jankowicz was tapped in 2022 by the Biden-Harris administration to lead the Disinformation Governance Board (DGB), a body that was slated to work with the Department of Homeland Security to stamp out “disinformation.”
Jankowicz, who has said she “shudders” at the thought of free speech, has been a frequent source of disinformation. She vehemently claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was a “Trump campaign product” and in 2016 peddled the false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump conspired with the Kremlin to steal the presidential election.
The DGB was scrapped after backlash. Last year, leaked documents revealed that the board was
meant to silence opponents of the Biden-Harris administration, including those who question the 2020 election results.
On
MSNBC Saturday, Jankowicz signaled she is still bitter about the DGB’s cancelation. She spent the segment fuming against Trump and billionaire Elon Musk for spreading "disinformation," particularly by how they called out the disastrous response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to Hurricane Helene.
“[FEMA agents] are first responders meant to be dealing with emergency assistance,” she said. “They have had to become disinformation experts and there was meant to be a bureau within DHS focusing on this that I was meant to lead.”
“This is why Nina should be employed today in the federal government,” responded host Symone Sanders-Townsend.