DHS Axes Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board After MRC Exposed Soros Link

Officially ending its Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board plans by the Department of Homeland Security, The action follows MRC Free Speech America, in conjunction with MRC Business, exposing the DGB’s leftist bias — including its connections to liberal billionaire George Soros.

DHS published an Aug. 24, press release stating Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, had terminated Disinformation Governance Board. The charter was revoked Thursday following a recommendation of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. After widespread public backlash, DGB operations were stopped. 

MRC Business was the first to expose how the DGB’s former co-chair, DHS Principal Deputy General Counsel Jennifer Daskal, previously worked as a fellow for Soros’ Open Society Institute “working on issues related to privacy and law enforcement access to data across borders.”

Daskal is also the founder editor of Just Security. Soros’s Open Society Foundations gave at least $675,000 to Just Security between 2017 and 2019. 

MRC Free Speech America found out that DGB Advisor Michael Chertoff was Cybersecurity Group ex officio member at the Soros-funded Aspen Institute. Two organizations within Soros’s Open Society Network — Foundation to Promote Open Society ($2,594,780) and the Open Society Institute ($445,000) —  poured at least $3,039,780 into the Aspen Institute between 2003 and 2020.

Any “nonpartisan” veneer President Joe Biden’s administration falsely propped up for the DGB flew out the window after MRC Business exposed this Soros connection. 

Daskal was also senior counterterrorism counsel to the anti-Semitic Human Rights Watch between 2000 and 2014. National Review contributing editor Andrew McCarthy referred to Daskal in 2009 as a “left-wing activist who advocated on behalf of al Qaeda prisoners” while working with Human Rights Watch. 

MRC Business also exposed how both Daskal and former “Mary Poppins” DGB Executive Director Nina Jankowicz both donated to Biden. This discovery cast doubt on former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s pledge that the Orwellian DGB would “operate in a nonpartisan and apolitical manner.” 

Watch below as then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki pledged back on May 2 that the Disinformation Governance Board was “nonpartisan.”

 

 

DHS appeared to suggest in its press release that it isn’t exactly giving up on its disinformation gambit:

Using the HSAC guidelines as a guideline, the Department will continue to deal with threat streams that compromise the security and integrity of our country, in compliance with the law. We also promise to uphold civil rights of Americans and encourage transparency in all our activities.

The push for a censorship apparatus like the DGB is even worse in light of the Biden administration’s active coordination with Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley to police Americans’ speech.

Whistleblower documents obtained by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) showed that DHS explored possible partnerships with Big Tech platforms including Twitter to fight so-called “disinformation” spreading in the U.S. The leaked documents described questions on the validity of the 2020 election, questions on the origins and effects of COVID-19 vaccines and questions on the efficacy of masks as “homeland security risks.” 

The documents also revealed that Mayorkas officially approved the DGB to begin work on Feb. 24, which contradicted his May 4 congressional testimony that the DGB had “not yet begun its work.” The DGB functioned and held meetings with Big Tech companies more than two months before Mayorkas informed Congress the DGB had yet to start its work.

Americans won an obvious victory over the DGB, a leftist-biased and Soros-tied organization. However, the DGB saga, taken straight out of the script of George Orwell’s “1984,” should serve as a stark warning of the creeping threat of tyranny.

DHS did not respond to MRC’s request for a copy of the completed DGB review by publication time. 

Catherine Salgado (MRC Free Speech America) contributed to this report. 

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