From the Editorial Board: The most troubling problem with the Biden administration’s new Disinformation Governance Board is how little information the government has released about it.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on Capitol Hill on May 4, 2022, in Washington.
Underwood wanted to know what the department was doing about attempts by foreign adversaries to “destabilize our elections by targeting people of color with disinformation campaigns.”Underwood, a former nurse who later served as a senior adviser in the Department of Health and Human Services, introduced legislation two years ago in response to a rising tide of “deepfakes, manipulated media and online bots” among other superspreaders of false public health and safety information.
So are we, and we’re not alone. Lack of transparency has put Mayorkas on the hot seat as a target for conservatives, civil libertarians and Republican members of Congress, some of whom have called for the board to be disbanded. The Post reported on it three weeks before the 2020 presidential election as an “October surprise,” fueling an array of conspiracy theories.
Just as worrisome is the legislative process in which partisans in Congress and elsewhere try to steer government watchdogs away from favored constituencies who feel particularly shy about government scrutiny.
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