A member of President Joe Biden’s Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board has close ties to liberal billionaire activist George Soros.
Disinformation Governance Board leader Jennifer Daskal has at least three connections to Soros. Daskal previously served as an Open Society Institute fellow “working on issues related to privacy and law enforcement access to data across borders.” Daskal also worked as as senior counterterrorism counsel for the anti-Semitic Human Rights Watch. In the period 2000-2014, Soros gave HRW at least $32,106 746. Daskal was the founder editor of Just Security. Soros’ Open Society Foundations gave $675,000 to Just Security between 2017 and 2019.
Daskal’s involvement with the DGB fits right in with the Soros agenda. Soros has been involved in funding a litany of so-called fact-checking operations, making the revelation of Daskal’s Soros-tie par for the course. Soros cash recipients includes The Poynter Institute’s left-wing International Fact-Checking Network, which decried YouTube’s “insufficient” censorship, and the U.K.-based Full Fact, which tried to swat down the idea of COVID-19 leaking from a lab in February, 2020 while knowledge of the pathogen was still rare.
The fact that Soros has one of his former fellows leading Biden’s government-sanctioned Ministry of Truth should concern every American citizen. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated during a congressional hearing that “[o]Rob Silvers, ur Undersecretary of Policy is co-chair with our Principal Deputy General Counsel Jennifer Daskal, in leading a just recently constituted a misinformation/disinformation governance board.”
Daskal is expected to have a significant influence on the Disinformation Governance Board’s future policies. It’s as if the pro-critical race theory and self-proclaimed “Mary Poppins of disinformation” Nina Jankowicz being named the censorship board’s executive director wasn’t cringe enough.
You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation 💁🏻♀️ https://t.co/eGV9lpctYn pic.twitter.com/WVQFA2bPmq
— Nina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@wiczipedia) February 17, 2021
Daskal’s role at Soros’s foundations included researching the problem of how “companies—the new gatekeepers—are increasingly playing a key, and largely unregulated, role in determining when and under what circumstances data should be turned over to investigating officials.”
A 2017 New York Times article referred to Just Security contributors as the “more liberal counterparts” to writers for the Lawfare blog. Just Security’s leftist bent was illustrated by a blog it published that exploited the Jan. 6, Capitol Hill Riot to criticize American police and accuse them of being involuntary supporters of white nationalism. The blog, headlined, “The Failure to Police White Nationalism is a Feature, Not a Bug of American Policing,” even called for defunding the police:
In light of the changing nature and role of policing in society, this country needs to rethink its approach. History association with white nationalalismand racial inclusion by acknowledging the racially-integrated history of police work, which will reduce our dependency on them.Diverting funds from the police to critical public programs•. and making sure that law enforcement agencies involved in wrongdoing are held accountable [emphasis added.]
The Disinformation Governance Board has been nicknamed the “Ministry of Truth” as the entity takes the struggle between free speech and censorship online to the next level. Former President Donald Trump condemned the nascent totalitarianism of the censorship board, calling it “a horrible thing.” Even Politico Jack Shafer, senior media journalist, blasted the creation of the censorship panel:
Is there anyone who thinks that the government should be able to determine truth and disinformation. Is it possible for the government to tell the truth, or is that impossible? It has always produced lies and disinformation in an unprecedented manner. In order to prevent citizens from learning, the government overclassifies critical information. To play hide and seek facts, it employs thousands of journalists aides.
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