I can’t really trust any government that sets up a Ministry of Truth. It’s really such a huge and obvious tell.
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"Yeah, who are they to tell me what a 'pound' weighs??"
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Measurements are useful and like the Peano Axioms are transparently assumed. I do not see how they are equivalent to political narrative.
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Some "narrative" is built around objective facts—actual verifiable history. Some isn't.
The Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board is more about calling out bullshit. And I can understand why bullshitters are threatened by that.
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And when you look at how much disinformation about the legitimacy of the election and Trump's options for nullifying it led directly to the #January6thInsurrection, it's clear some sources of rampant disinformation are a credible threat to our nation.
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Same reason why you can't advertise a pile of sawdust as meatloaf anymore, or lie about the interest in a bank loan. We have standards for a reason.
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check out the background of the woman heading it. laughable until they come to take us away.
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"Jankowicz attended Bryn Mawr College, double-majoring in Russian and political science...semester at Herzen State Pedagogical University in Russia...Fulbright fellow in Kyiv, working with the foreign ministry of Ukraine...disinformation fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center..."
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"supervisor of the Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute"
Seems like a good person to appoint considering how much of the disinformation gets traced back to Russia.