<p>The Biden administration&#8217;s former &#8220;disinformation czar,&#8221; ousted after an apparent attempt to create an Orwellian ministry of truth within the Department of Defense, has launched a new nonprofit that declares criticism of &#8220;disinformation researchers&#8221; such as herself as a chief threat to the United States of America.</p>
<p>&#8220;The campaign against counter-disinformation work is the greatest threat to freedom of expression and academic integrity since the McCarthy era,&#8221; Nina Jankowicz said in a press release, pledging that her group would not &#8220;allow it to continue.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Once researchers are free to conduct their essential work, the American people will gain a better understanding of the nature and severity of the disinformation threats we face,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Disinformation knows no political party. Its ultimate victim is our democracy.&#8221;</p>
<p>The group, the American Sunlight Project, was announced as a bipartisan advocacy organization founded by Jankowicz that was &#8220;launched to expose and oppose efforts to weaponize disinformation in the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The organization will investigate the networks and money driving disinformation and educate the public about the threats disinformation poses to their daily lives,&#8221; it says. &#8220;The first step in the group’s program will involve countering the organized campaign currently challenging the work of disinformation researchers.&#8221;</p>
<p>The group&#8217;s advisory board consists of Katie Harbath, a former Facebook executive, Emily Horne, a former National Security Council official, Ineke Mushovic of the gay advocacy group Movement Advancement Project, and Ben Wittes of the left-wing Brookings Institution, who was once described as the &#8220;<a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/politico50/benjamin-wittes/">bard of the deep state</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos, the group&#8217;s co-founder, claims that &#8220;organized campaigns are preventing us from researching and understanding the threat of disinformation and organization an appropriate national response,&#8221; promising to &#8220;break the deadlocks holding us back.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 2022, Jankowicz was appointed by the Department of Homeland Security to lead an ill-fated body called the Disinformation Governance Board. An uproar over civil liberties ensued, including from 20 state attorneys general, with the Biden administration ultimately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-demand-answers-from-nina-jankowicz-on-new-disinformation-governance-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrapping</a> the idea. Jankowicz says the criticism of the board was, itself, misinformation.</p>
<p>Jankowicz had posted bizarre videos of herself singing about &#8220;disinformation,&#8221; referring to herself as the &#8220;Mary Poppins of disinformation.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation 💁🏻‍♀️ <a href="https://t.co/eGV9lpctYn">https://t.co/eGV9lpctYn</a> <a href="https://t.co/WVQFA2bPmq">pic.twitter.com/WVQFA2bPmq</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Nina Jankowicz (@wiczipedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1362153807879303171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Misinformation&#8221; groups often purport to rate news outlets in the name of transparency, assign failing ratings to center-right news outlets, and then refuse to share their data with journalists who want to check their methodology.</p>
<p>In the past, they have been subsidized by the government, and served to enforce government-sanctioned lines — such as that the coronavirus did not leak out of a Chinese lab — in the media.</p>
<p>Anti-&#8220;misinformation&#8221; efforts often hold only the barest pretext to being anything other than partisan enforcers, saying they aim to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-paid-germans-to-bring-censorship-and-propaganda-to-u-s-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rescue</a> people from early warning signs that they believe could head down a path to extremes — which often amounts to a belief in center-right ideas — while actively advocating for left-wing falsities such as the New York Times&#8217; debunked 1619 Project.</p>
<p>Even as they make a living criticizing others, &#8220;misinformation researchers&#8221; have played the victim as soon as people do not react to their work the way they hoped.</p>
<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/20-gop-attorneys-general-threaten-lawsuit-over-un-american-disinformation-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the scrapped Disinformation Governance Board an &#8220;un-American, anti-democratic, and a dangerous escalation of the Biden Administration’s embrace of government-endorsed censorship,&#8221; and said Americans should not trust Jankowicz to act &#8220;as the Biden Administration&#8217;s arbiter of truth.&#8221;</p>
<p>The new &#8220;sunlight&#8221; group <a href="https://www.americansunlight.org/letter-to-congress">wrote</a> to the Committee faulting it for releasing excerpts from &#8220;misinformation experts&#8221; own testimony, saying it has made them &#8220;targets for harassment.&#8221;</p>
<p>The group lamented that &#8220;dozens of AI-generated images of former President Trump posing with Black voters have circulated online&#8221; and said the images &#8220;are real, present-day threats to American democracy.&#8221;</p>

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