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President Biden Appoints Disinformation Tsar Who Promotes Disinformation

The Ministry of Truth is Finally Here

Maajid Nawaz
Apr 28

"‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,’ repeated Winston obediently.” George Orwell, “1984”

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1) Tony Stark Does it Again

So Elon Musk bought twitter for $43 billion. The world’s richest man now owns an electric care plant, a space rocket company and one of the most powerful communication platforms ever invented by which to promote them.

He has some good ideas.

Twitter avatar for @elonmuskElon Musk @elonmusk
For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally

April 27th 2022

133,125 Retweets1,319,782 Likes

And though such news is a welcome respite from twitter’s recent and dangerous turn as the media enforcement arm of government, it should nevertheless be received with cautious optimism.

Twitter avatar for @MaajidNawazMaajid أبو عمّار @MaajidNawaz
Oh, and @elonmusk, many smaller accounts are right, don’t go all proto-Skynet with us on here or the talent will just leave and go somewhere else. You’ll be left with lemmings 👍🏽

April 25th 2022

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This is because Elon Musk also wants to implant microchips into human brains.

And he can be somewhat unpredictable.

Twitter avatar for @elonmuskElon Musk @elonmusk
.@CocaCola Oh hi lol

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in

April 28th 2022

9,134 Retweets104,303 Likes

So when he says that by buying twitter he will try to remove all bots and…

Twitter avatar for @elonmuskElon Musk @elonmusk
And authenticate all real humans

April 21st 2022

26,915 Retweets459,166 Likes

It can only be hoped that he does not mean to do away with the anonymity that political dissidents rely on, or to use twitter as a stepping stone to bring us closer to mandatory digital identification.

Regardless, the White House didn’t like Elon Musk’s latest move one bit.

Twitter avatar for @cspanCSPAN @cspan
.@PressSec on @elonmusk purchasing @Twitter: "The president has long been concerned about the power of large social media platforms, the power they have over our everyday lives, has long argued that tech platforms must be held accountable for the harms they cause."

April 25th 2022

177 Retweets587 Likes

2) Biden Appoints Disinformation Tsar Nina Jankowicz Who Posts Disinformation

Almost as revenge against Musk, within days the White House announced the appointment of Nina Jankowicz, from none other than the Department for Homeland Security, as Biden’s new ‘Disinformation Tsar’. The Ministry of Truth is finally here.

US government employee Nina Jankowicz will now apparently arbitrate between true and false. Regardless of whether Musk was part of this plan, or is truly out of favour with them, the globalist elites were ready. They had already lined up their response, as if they already knew.

Twitter avatar for @MaajidNawazMaajid أبو عمّار @MaajidNawaz
After everything that has transpired the last two years, the US Department of **Homeland Security** is now even seeking to govern what information you’re allowed to put out. Just think about that. Has this hit your red line yet folks? https://t.co/uCW1WPO0E4

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec

BREAKING: Biden administration creates Homeland Security 'Disinformation Governance Board' to fight 'misinformation' https://t.co/tZzYDyMA0C

April 27th 2022

1,361 Retweets4,414 Likes

Worryingly, Biden’s new Disinformation Tsar Nina Jankowicz has form posting disinformation herself. This does not bode well for the rest of us.

i) Hunter Biden’s Laptop

Here she is posting disinformation about Hunter Biden’s laptop during the time of the last US election.

Twitter avatar for @wiczipediaNina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @wiczipedia
Back on the "laptop from hell," apparently- Biden notes 50 former natsec officials and 5 former CIA heads that believe the laptop is a Russian influence op. Trump says "Russia, Russia, Russia."

October 23rd 2020

60 Retweets110 Likes

Since that time, and despite a fierce propaganda campaign launched by corporatist media in unison in order to “fortify” the election for Biden, even the New York Times has belatedly confirmed the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop (two years too late).

With much vindication the New York Post reports:

At the time, Biden’s new Disinformation Tsar Nina Jankowicz repeated the now discredited lie put out by a group of 51 retired Intelligence Community (IC) members, blaming the Hunter Biden laptop story on Russian disinformation.

Twitter avatar for @wiczipediaNina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @wiczipedia
IC has a high degree of confidence that the Kremlin used proxies to push influence narratives, including misleading or unsubstantiated claims about President Biden, to US media, officials, and influencers, some close to President Trump. A clear nod to the alleged Hunter laptop.

March 16th 2021

12 Retweets20 Likes

Oh dear. It turns out that they all lied.

The New York Post reports:

This is a big deal. Let’s not forget that at the time - during an election - this true story was even banned by Twitter. And so it is that Biden’s new Disinformation Tsar Nina Jankowicz herself participated in spreading major disinformation that probably helped her boss win an election.

ii) The Steele Dossier Hoax

If Nina Jankowicz’s disinformation was a one-off, maybe people would be more forgiving. But here she is posting more disinformation, this time about the Steele dossier that claimed Trump was under the nefarious influence of Russians.

Twitter avatar for @wiczipediaNina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @wiczipedia
Listened to this last night- Chris Steele (yes THAT Chris Steele) provides some great historical context about the evolution of disinfo. Worth a listen

infotagion @infotagion

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-MI6 Russia desk head Chris Steele tells @DamianCollins, @CharlesKriel & @LukeHarding1968 why the UK needs to close political donation loopholes to prevent Russian interference 🇬🇧🇷🇺 #RussiaReport 🎙️ Apple https://t.co/2ktoiiApwH 🎙️ Spotify https://t.co/gBeu7Tl7Qx https://t.co/2dcGnbD9xB

August 7th 2020

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In reality, the Steele dossier was a fraud. This year Hilary Clinton and the DNC were fined $113,000 for financing the research that eventually became known as the infamous Steele dossier, without declaring it as a campaign expense.

US News carrying an Associated Press report states:

“Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether they violated campaign finance law by misreporting spending on research that eventually became the infamous Steele dossier..But the dossier has been largely discredited since its publication, with core aspects of the material exposed as unsupported and unproven rumors. A special counsel assigned to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe charged one of Steele’s sources with lying to the FBI and charged a cybersecurity lawyer who worked for Clinton’s campaign with lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting in which he relayed concerns about the Russia-based Alfa Bank.”

iii) On Covid

And here is Nina Jankowicz on Covid:

Twitter avatar for @wiczipediaNina Jankowicz 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @wiczipedia
Good. I totally avoided public transit when I was in London last week because of lax masking. Also got into a argument with an English woman across from me on the Eurostar who refused to put her mask on. 🙃

YouGov @YouGov

Boris Johnson has announced that mask wearing is mandatory again in England on public transport and in shops. Our survey a month ago found 76-81% of English people supported such a move https://t.co/XRdOzv6j6o https://t.co/N47D43wLYj

November 27th 2021

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Considering this, it’s not hard to imagine how terrible Nina Jankowicz would have been at policing “Covid disinformation” on masks, lockdowns and vaccines - if she were in this role, and we had still been under state mandates.

iv) Ukraine

As if that was not enough, how do you think she will perform on Ukraine?

Twitter avatar for @JackPosobiecJack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec
Jankowicz is a former advisor to the Ukrainian government, under a Fulbright-Clinton Fellowship
Image

April 27th 2022

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Considering her other biased stances and past role advising the Ukrainian government, it feels quite assured that she would use her new powers to try and shut down those who highlight that we are funding and training Azov Nazis who formally serve in the Ukrainian National Guard. Perhaps she would also consider it disinformation to question why we broke our historic promise not to expand Nato eastward towards Russia, or why we used Department of Defence funds to finance bio-labs on Russia’s border inside Ukraine. Maybe demonstrating that globalist elites seek to use Ukraine to facilitate their New World Order would be deemed disinformation by her too.

3) The Globalists Were Ready

For a while you have been hearing talk by politicians about controlling the internet in the name of policing hate speech. In the weeks leading up to Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, such talk increased.

i) The USA

For a task as vital as this the globalists rolled out none other than their star performer, Barack Obama.

And so he was dispatched to undermine our view on the importance of preserving free speech online. Obama even went so far as to declare a war on disinformation against people like Putin “and Steve Bannon for that matter”.

Twitter avatar for @thehillThe Hill @thehill
.@BarackObama: "It's not necessary for people to believe disinformation in order to weaken democratic institutions. You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage, you just have to raise enough questions[...] that citizens no longer know what to believe."

April 22nd 2022

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As is usual for globalists, hyperbolic language about existential threats to democracy is used to shroud their real intent.

Twitter avatar for @BarackObamaBarack Obama @BarackObama
Disinformation is a threat to our democracy, and will continue to be unless we work together to address it. Tune in as I share some thoughts on what we can all do now. https://t.co/6R6n3MOPPR

April 21st 2022

3,633 Retweets13,722 Likes

If democracy were their real concern, some consistency would be evident. It is noticeable though, only by its absence.

As the Washington Examiner notes :

“Obama, like others in the Democratic Party and in establishment media circles, is targeting some types of disinformation while remaining strikingly silent about others. There is disinformation that he finds deeply threatening, and there is disinformation he doesn't seem to notice at all.”

This is the same Obama who, when president, was awarded Politifact Lie of the Year award, for lying to Americans about a healthcare pledge.

The Washington Post reports:

In fact, Obama has some form on disinformation. As president he actually signed into US law a change that lifted the domestic prohibition on government-made propaganda targeting foreign nations, which meant that such media could now be broadcast to American citizens.

The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, contained within the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2013, eased existing restrictions so that government media targeting foreign nations produced by the US Agency for Global Media could be disseminated at home. Prior to its passage, such media was banned from being distributed to an American audience because it was considered propaganda.

As Foreign Policy notes:

“For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: an unleashing of thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption in a reform initially criticized as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts. So what just happened?”

Buzzfeed reports from 2012:

“An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill..the amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the independent Broadcasting Board of Governors, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee's official website..Critics of the bill say there are ways to keep America safe without turning the massive information operations apparatus within the federal government against American citizens..The new law would give sweeping powers to the government to push television, radio, newspaper, and social media onto the U.S. public..”

And as the US Agency for Global Media has stated on its own website, it would not be guilty of spreading propaganda within the US after Obama passed this act, because the US law prohibiting such propaganda “does not apply to the Defense Department”.

So despite the deception of infamously biased opinions issued by Orwellian “fact” check organisations that seek to muddy the waters while admitting to the truth in their small print, this meme is actually correct.

Twitter avatar for @JEM_BooksJanet Evelyn ✝️📖🇺🇸🤺 @JEM_Books
Obama, the King of Disinformation.
Image

Kelly the Silver Fox @FreedomHasWon

Watch as Obama admit the jabs were a experiment on humanity! https://t.co/lsBr8laV00

April 22nd 2022

59 Retweets53 Likes

As the Daily Beast reports, Tucker Carlson reacted to Obama’s intervention with frustration.

Twitter avatar for @Hawkeye1745Hawkeye1745 @Hawkeye1745
Tucker Carlson rips Obama over ‘Disinformation’ speech: ‘He’s a full-blown fascist who hates you’ “…this guy's not just liberal. In fact, he's not liberal at all. He's a full blown fascist who hates you and wants to keep you from talking? …”

April 23rd 2022

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“So this guy’s not just “liberal”, in fact he’s not liberal at all, he’s a full blown fascist, he hates you and wants to keep you from talking, or else. He wants censorship of anyone who disagrees with him and now he just comes out and says it… so ‘me and my friends at the Aspen Institute need to be in complete control of every word uttered otherwise it’s not democracy’, that’s the case he’s making, that’s the case they’re all making…”

But when all else fails, they will just tell us that we’re “killing grandma” again.

Twitter avatar for @axiosAxios @axios
Obama: Disinformation is killing people
Obama says disinformation is killing people in Stanford speechObama’s comments reflect a shift in his feelings toward technology.trib.al

April 21st 2022

59 Retweets265 Likes

Quite.

ii) The UK Online Safety Bill

Government appointments and legislative measures - as desperate as they seem - are not restricted to the US. In the UK former Foreign Secretary William Hague recently made his view clear on what he thinks of the average pleb’s right to have an opinion.

Twitter avatar for @TimesRadioTimes Radio @TimesRadio
"The uninformed, ignorant instant opinion is ranked equally alongside a considered opinion or debated opinion, that's deeply unhealthy for democracy." @WilliamJHague tells #TimesRadio how he would drastically change Twitter to defend democracy. 🎙️ @AasmahMir @StigAbell

April 26th 2022

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“The uninformed, ignorant, instant opinion is ranked equally alongside considered opinion or debated opinion, that’s deeply unhealthy for democracy” former UK Foreign Secretary William Hague.

Let me get this straight, treating people’s opinions with respect and dignity is “unhealthy for democracy”, but legislating away free speech isn’t, apparently.

The UK’s civil liberties organisation Big Brother Watch reports:

“The Online Safety Bill is a disaster for our rights and threatens both free speech and the right to privacy..The Bill grants the Government vast powers to force the censorship of lawful expression, encourages IDs for the internet and criminalises speech which is deemed to be “distressing”. It continues to live up to its name as the censor’s charter.”

iii) The EU

Not to be outshone by Obama, Hilary Clinton has also weighed in by urging the EU to introduce even tougher online laws.

Twitter avatar for @HillaryClintonHillary Clinton @HillaryClinton
For too long, tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability. The EU is poised to do something about it. I urge our transatlantic allies to push the Digital Services Act across the finish line and bolster global democracy before it's too late.

April 21st 2022

3,610 Retweets15,325 Likes

Hilary Clinton is still married to a man who took at least 26 trips on the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet.

“Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a registered sex offender’s infamous jet than previously reported, with flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips aboard the “Lolita Express” -- even apparently ditching his Secret Service detail for at least five of the flights..”

And unlike her friend Melinda, who divorced her other friend Bill Gates over far less than this, Hilary stands by her man.

Twitter avatar for @MaajidNawazMaajid أبو عمّار @MaajidNawaz
Melinda French Gates on her divorce from Bill Gates: “Yeah, as I said, it’s not one thing, it’s many things. But I did not like that he’d had meetings with Jeffrey Epstein, no” ‘And you made that clear to him?” “I made that clear to him”

March 17th 2022

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As has already been done successfully with the Hunter Biden laptop story and the fake Steele dossier, perhaps this is the sort of “disinformation” that Hilary Clinton would seek to shut down in advance, given a chance.

Regardless, the message is being heard:

Twitter avatar for @RebelNews_USARebel News USA @RebelNews_USA
'If [Twitter] does not comply with our law there are sanctions — 6 per cent of the revenue and, if they continue, banned from operating in Europe,' an EU bureaucrat warned.
European Union threatens Elon Musk over advocacy for free speech on Twitter‘If [Twitter] does not comply with our law there are sanctions — 6 per cent of the revenue and, if they continue, banned from operating in Europe,’ an EU bureaucrat warned.rebelne.ws

April 27th 2022

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Not that Elon Musk is bothered.

Twitter avatar for @elonmuskElon Musk @elonmusk
By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law. I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law. If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect. Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.

April 26th 2022

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4) The End Game

The globalists are rapidly losing their grip on power. The narrative is escaping from them faster than they care for, and as this happens raw power is usually the only option remaining. With this is mind, we are probably entering a phase of the end game. In this period increasing numbers of people will begin to see though the duplicity promoted by those such as Biden, Clinton and Obama, and will suffer for it as the former seek to retain their receding power.

How depressing it is that even a one-party tyranny such as China’s is able to score points against the US on disinformation, while the only accurate response remaining is not to accuse them of lying, but rather to remind them that they too live in a glass-house.

Twitter avatar for @MFA_ChinaSpokesperson发言人办公室 @MFA_China
The US is the master of disinformation and coercive diplomacy, and the biggest saboteur of international and regional peace and stability.

April 25th 2022

2,240 Retweets5,231 Likes

As China demonstrates, Orwell’s “1984” ends depressingly, with the story’s hero Winston Smith being simply overwhelmed by totalitarianism’s insidious ability to infect everyone and everything. But one thing Winston Smith did not have in the novel was access to a decentralised internet. If we can preserve that, we may just be able to preserve our liberty. For where there is hope, there is life.

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