{"id":211218,"date":"2022-05-09T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=211218"},"modified":"2022-05-09T05:26:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T04:26:25","slug":"bidens-ministry-of-truth-is-another-propaganda-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/05\/bidens-ministry-of-truth-is-another-propaganda-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s \u2018Ministry of Truth\u2019 Is another Propaganda Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

The so-called proponents of freedom and democracy have given themselves the right to designate what the \u2018truth\u2019 is.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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3 May 2022 – <\/em>US President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Homeland Security announced last week that it had formed a \u201cDisinformation Governance Board\u201d to fight the spread of so-called disinformation on the Internet. While White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki didn\u2019t elaborate on how the bureau would operate, she suggested that it would monitor disinformation on topics like COVID-19 and elections.<\/p>\n

Conservatives have often half-joked about George Orwell\u2019s \u201c1984\u201d becoming a reality, but it appears that the Biden administration has decided to literally take a page from the book and create a \u201cMinistry of Truth\u201d.<\/p>\n

The board\u2019s aim is to target \u201cdisinformation,\u201d but what constitutes disinformation? Many times over the years we have seen complete censorship from government officials and Big Tech social media companies, most infamously during the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, which saw major tech platforms and politicians painting it as \u201cRussian propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allowing the government to dictate what \u201cthe truth\u201d is sets a dangerous precedent, as it instead promotes desired narratives to bolster poll numbers, ratings, or nudging the citizenry<\/a> into following government edicts \u2013 all on the basis of \u201ctrust us, we know what\u2019s best for you.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Facts be damned. Just do as you\u2019re told. This was seen multiple times during the pandemic era, when both Dr. Anthony Fauci and then-Surgeon General Jerome Adams hummed and harred over mask-wearing and social distancing \u2013 first instructing the public not to wear masks, and then much later calling it a necessity.<\/p>\n

Gatekeeping discourse is a surefire way to control the narrative, controlling what people see, what they say, and ultimately \u2013 what they believe. It\u2019s also an effective means to silence dissent, and quash those who might speak out against the regime\u2019s approved narrative \u2013 or even the regime itself.<\/p>\n

The new Ministry of Truth is a tool, and there is no reality in which this tool will not be used for bad intent \u2013 and it\u2019ll claim to be doing it all in the name of the greater good.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, the Ministry of Truth was rushed into creation seemingly as a reaction to \u201cfree speech absolutist\u201d Elon Musk\u2019s purchase of the social media platform, Twitter, the de facto town square of political discourse and public narratives.<\/p>\n

With the relinquishment of Twitter to Musk, those who control mainstream narratives fear they will lose out on an important resource, and will no longer be able to promote narratives and fix algorithms to sway public opinion \u2013 at least not with ease. There will be pushback, and their positions are not ones they are willing to defend, hence why the creation of this new tool is necessary. It keeps the plebeians in check.<\/p>\n

Free speech, which in Musk\u2019s belief is \u201cessential to a functioning democracy,<\/em>\u201d flies directly in the face of the Biden administration\u2019s attempts to crack down on viewpoints that contradict the regime\u2019s official narrative. And who better to head the Disinformation Governance Board than Nina Jankowicz, who herself perpetuated several regime-approved falsehoods?<\/p>\n

Jankowicz, who previously advised the Ukrainian government on disinformation and strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship, voiced her support for Christopher Steele<\/a>, whose infamous \u201cSteele dossier\u201d on Russian election interference during Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 election dogged the presidency for years. Despite Steele\u2019s loss of credibility, Jankowicz hyped up the former spy in August 2020 as being able to offer \u201csome great historical context about the evolution of disinfo<\/em>\u201d when he spoke on a podcast about the topic.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth noting that the infamous dossier, which included the unverifiable claim that Russia had \u201ckompromat\u201d on Trump in the form of a sex tape, has since been entirely discredited. Steele\u2019s main source, Igor Danchenko, was later charged with five counts<\/a> of making false statements to the FBI. Jankowicz also repeated the unproven theory<\/a> that Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a> was the product of a Russian disinformation campaign, spread by members of the Trump campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack on the \u2018laptop from hell,\u2019 apparently\u2014Biden notes 50 former natsec officials and 5 former CIA heads that believe the laptop is a Russian influence op<\/em>,\u201d Jankowicz said on Twitter. \u201cTrump says \u2018Russia, Russia, Russia.<\/em>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She attempted to distance herself from her remarks with the claim that she was simply livetweeting Trump\u2019s first presidential debate with Biden. However, when solicited by the Associated Press in October 2020 for her thoughts on the laptop, Jankowicz told the publication that \u201cWe should view it as a Trump campaign product,\u201d dismissing the fact that the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As detailed by Newsweek<\/a>, Jankowicz continued to perpetuate doubt against the story, tweeting on October 22, 2020 that \u201cThe emails don’t need to be altered to be part of an influence campaign. Voters deserve that context, not a [fairy] tale about a laptop repair shop.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

In a consolidated effort to disqualify the New York Post\u2019s original report on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop as \u201cdisinformation\u201d, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms banned the New York Post and prevented its users from sharing the story weeks ahead of the 2020 US presidential election. The original report on the laptop has since been validated by a comprehensive report about the ongoing federal probe into Hunter Biden\u2019s tax filings, published by the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twitter\u2019s then-CEO Jack Dorsey later admitted to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that censoring the report was a \u201ctotal mistake<\/a>,\u201d and chalked up the decision to a \u201cprocess error.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Twitter and Facebook heads were grilled over their companies\u2019 perceived anti-conservative bias and penchant for censoring so-called \u201cdisinformation,\u201d with the censorship usually aimed at conservatives. It\u2019s worth pointing out again that the now-discredited \u201cSteele dossier\u201d had no problem gaining traction when it first ran on BuzzFeed.<\/p>\n

Nina Jankowicz had no problem spreading actual disinformation while helping to silence the truth under the auspices of \u201ccombating disinformation.\u201d Given her predilection towards perpetuating anti-Russian narratives, one might ask if contradictory evidence to the \u201cSnake Island\u201d and \u201cGhost of Kiev\u201d hoaxes constitute forms of \u201cdisinformation\u201d in her book. After all, the mainstream media is chiefly responsible for promoting these heroic war stories<\/a>, both of which were almost immediately discredited by the Russian media \u2013 and later by western experts. Even Ukraine\u2019s own propagandists<\/a> were forced to instruct the public to stop promoting disinformation about the conflict. Would the Ministry of Truth move to silence such attacks on its credibility?<\/p>\n

Those concerned with the truth must do everything in their power to resist the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to police the truth. To that end, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is one of the few American leaders who has stepped up and vowed to fight back against the Orwellian disinformation bureau.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey want to be able to put out false narratives without people being able to speak out and fight back,<\/em>\u201d DeSantis said<\/a>. \u201cBut we\u2019re not going to let Biden get away with this one, so we will be fighting back.<\/em>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Referring to the regime as a<\/p>\n

\u201cdecaying and discredited ruling elite in this country. <\/em>We believe it\u2019s essential that individual Floridians and Americans are able to speak out against the false narratives trying to be jammed down our throats by this regime<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Ian<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ian Miles Cheong<\/em>\u00a0is a political and cultural commentator. His work has been featured on <\/em>The Rebel, Penthouse, Human Events, and<\/em> The Post Millennial.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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