The Biden administration’s controversial Disinformation Governance Board was paused about three weeks after it was announced by the Department of Homeland Security, according to the person hired to run the panel, coming amid concerns that it would be weaponized by the administration against dissenting voices.
Nina Jankowicz, who was tapped by the White House to be in charge of the newly created board, told news outlets Wednesday that she’s submitted her resignation. In that statement, Jankowicz also confirmed that the Board’s “work [is] paused” and “its future uncertain.”
After it was learned that it would be Jankowicz, who the administration claimed was an expert in online disinformation, to lead the board, a number of users uncovered posts she had made on Twitter that touted the discredited “Steele dossier” that was used to smear former President Donald Trump and October 2020 claims that Hunter Biden’s laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign. It was later revealed that the laptop and messages about Biden’s overseas business deals were authentic….