A U.S. advisory panel on July 18 said it is recommending that the government’s disinformation board is not necessary.
“At this point, we have concluded that there is no need for a Disinformation Governance Board,” the panel said in a statement.
No further details were given.
Michael Chertoff, secretary of homeland security during the George W. Bush administration and Jamie Gorelick, a deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, co-chair the panel, the Disinformation Best Practices and Safeguards Subcommittee of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
The panel’s members were chosen by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a Biden appointee who—whistleblower documents showed—offered disinformation about the origins of the Disinformation Governance Board….