Elon Musk, a billionaire and freedom-speech champion, influenced Nina of Disinformation Governance Board (DGB). Jankowicz for suggesting a group of elites should be able to “add context” to other users’ tweets.
Do you remember when nobles were knights in shining armour? These nobles want your tweets to be nag-worthy. One Twitter user shared a video in which DGB head Jankowicz suggested that “verified” Twitter users she deems “legit” can place “context” over users’ tweets: “So verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter, the same sort of way that Wikipedia is, so they can add context to certain tweets.” Musk shredded the idea as “Disconcerting …” in a May 12 tweet, appearing to warn internet busybodies in a later post: “Don’t Diss Information.”
Twitter repeatedly silenced Donald Trump as President until the company banned him. Many world leaders deplored this decision for not being justified, regardless of political affiliations. Jankowicz seemed to use that example as the gold standard: “Just as an easy example, not from any political standpoint, if President Trump were still on Twitter and tweeted a claim about voter fraud, someone could add context from one of the sixty lawsuits that went through the court or something that an election official in one of the states said.”
Musk also spoke out about Twitter and how it should run on the same day. He emphasized how Twitter should handle potential Trump returns. “Even though I think a less divisive candidate would be better in 2024, I still think Trump should be restored to Twitter,” Musk explained. This account is purportedly representative Lex Fridman of the Lex Fridman podcast commented: “Agreed. A permanent ban did not decrease division, hatred, or resentment in the world. The platform was removed. Conversation is the only thing we have to heal the division and celebrate our common humanity.”
Musk was open to the idea. writing, “Exactly.”
Musk and Jankowicz, the Czech censorship chiefsars, may have had to agree.
Jankowicz, despite being one leader of an ongoing liberal purge of so-called “disinformation,” has a history of spreading false information. Trump-Russia collusion talking point spreads from debunked Alfa Bank narrative in 2016 to praise for a speech parodying the Steele Dossier. Critics often compare the censorship board under President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security to the “Ministry of Truth” from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.
Former U.S. diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez quipped in response to the resurfacing of Jankowicz’s history: “So head of now notorious #DHS #DisinformationGovernanceBoard was promoting disinformation online in 2016 and beyond. But it was the type of disinformation you get a pass for these days.”
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