The new czar of disinformation is uniquely ill-suited to be an arbiter of truth–a position that has no place in a free country. Benjamin Weingarten writes:
If you were trying to discredit your own regime, you would be hard-pressed to do better than create a Ministry of Truth, house it within your domestic-security apparatus and appoint a serial spewer of untruth to lead it.
But don’t let the folly of the Biden administration’s Nina Jankowicz-led, Department of Homeland Security-housed Disinformation Governance Board fool you. The DGB is not only a discrediting and delegitimizing project but a dangerous one.
Start with Jankowicz, the self-described “Mary Poppins of disinformation.” She is uniquely ill-suited to be an arbiter of truth — a position that has no place in a free country.
[Benjamin Weingarten, "You couldn’t have picked a worse Minister of Truth than Nina Jankowicz,” The New York Post, May 12]