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The Liberal Obsession With ‘Disinformation’ Is Not Helping

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Why the swift death of the White House’s disinformation board is probably a good thing.

Pandora’s Box, 2021. © Marcel Dzama. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner. Art: Marcel Dzama On Wednesday, the Washington Post ’s Taylor Lorenz reported on the disastrous rollout of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board. Announced on April 27 with a hazy remit to “coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security,” the initiative generated immediate fierce backlash from conservative pundits and politicians who compared it to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 . The expert tapped to lead the board, Nina Jankowicz , faced a wave of fero

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