One of the new board's tasks will involve monitoring Russian disinformation threats ahead of this year's midterm elections and stopping the spread of false information aimed at migrants.
. Russia has repeatedly waged misinformation campaigns aimed at U.S. audiences to further divisions around election time and spread conspiracy theories around U.S. COVID-19 vaccines. , social media accounts and officials have used the internet to call photographs, reporting and videos of dead bodies and bombed buildings in Ukraine fake.
The board will be led by disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, who has researched Russian misinformation tactics and online harassment.During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden, a Democrat, repeatedly said he would push tech companies, including Facebook, to crack down harder on misinformation and conspiracy theories that have overwhelmed social media and its users.
Dozens of Republican lawmakers and pundits took to social media on Wednesday to widely criticize the new board and call for it to be disbanded. "Rather than police our border, Homeland Security has decided to make policing Americans’ speech its top priority," a tweet from Missouri's U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley read, in part. "They’re creating a Disinformation Board."DHS said in its statement that the board will "protect privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties" as part of its duties.
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