NYT Gets Thrill Up Leg Over Connecticut Creating State-Based Election Disinfo Board

The New York Times appeared to be tickled pink over liberal-run states shoehorning President Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board idea into their own election governance processes.

The Times technology and regulation reporter Cecilia Kang celebrated Connecticut for a reported recent state effort  to hire an election “misinformation” expert with a $150,000 salary. Kang’s story painted the idea of Connecticut’s so-called state “misinformation” officer like he or she would be a dogged crime-fighter. The story dons the fawning headline: “Help Wanted: State Misinformation Sheriff.” Kang whined how the state faced “a bevy of falsehoods about voting that swirled around online.” To avoid a so-called “similar deluge of unfounded rumors and lies around this year’s midterm elections, the state plans to spend nearly $2 million on marketing to share factual information about voting, and to create its first-ever position for an expert in combating misinformation.” 

Connecticut’s new “sheriff” of so-called misinformation would be charged with policing social media platforms and pushing censorship whenever the official deems it necessary, according to Kang:

[T]He or she will be expected to search fringe websites like 4chan and far-right social networking sites like Gettr, Rumble and other mainstream social media sites for early misinformation about voting, before it goes viral. Then, he/she should urge companies to delete or flag any posts that include false information.

If that wasn’t bad enough, Connecticut is reportedly looking for candidates fluent in English and Spanish “to address the spread of misinformation in both languages.” 

Kang spoke highly of the ways other states adopted Orwellian-style disinformation systems. But the kicker, which Kang chose to bury in the sixth paragraph, was that most of the states engaging in this scheme were “under Democratic control.” Colorado, for example, “hired three cybersecurity experts to monitor sites for misinformation.” In addition, “California’s office of the secretary of state is searching for misinformation and working with the Department of Homeland Security and academics to look for patterns of misinformation across the internet.”

Kang even drew parallels between Connecticut’s gambit and Biden’s “unconstitutional” DGB, which generated massive criticism across the political spectrum for resembling 1984’s “Ministry of Truth.” Kang mourned the DGB’s apparent demise:

Federally, the Department of Homeland Security has halted work of an advisory panel on disinformation following a torrent of criticisms from free speech advocates and conservative legislators.

Kang, fretting about state disinformation apparatuses suffering the DGB’s fate, whined: “conservatives and civil rights groups are almost certain to complain that [state] efforts to limit misinformation could restrict free speech.” 

MRC Business exposed how one of the Biden DGB’s co-chairs had three major connections to none other than leftist billionaire George Soros. The DGB was also originally led by the self-proclaimed “Mary Poppins of disinformation” Nina Jankowicz. Jankowicz propagated false Trump-Russia collusion talk points, including the 2016 debunked Alfa Bank narrative and the Steele Dossier. She even triedVerify the fact that you have been dismissed New York Post Hunter Biden laptop story as a “Russian influence op.”

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