Only three weeks later, the "information governance board" established by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on April 27 "suspended" its work; At the beginning of its establishment, its mission of "coordinating the fight against false information related to homeland security" was put aside Nina jankowicz, the head of the Committee and an expert hired by the US government, resigned with dignity. The Washington Post first got the news from people familiar with the matter, and the BBC and other media confirmed the matter through their own channels on Wednesday.
[text / observer net Ju Feng]
The Washington Post reported on May 18 that although yankovic is only 33 years old, he is a famous expert in the field of combating false information. She has written books on how to become an online woman and how to lose the information war. She has also worked in many non party think tanks and non-profit organizations. She is widely praised in the circle of studying false information.
But after the US government announced her appointment, she was immediately pushed into the spotlight by the forces she was fighting. Both the Department of Homeland Security and the Committee have been fiercely criticized. Jankovic bears the brunt and has become the target of public criticism from the right-wing Internet in the United States.
Jankovic posted [twitter] at the end of April( https://stock.finance.sina.com.cn/usstock/quotes/TWTR.html ) A few hours after announcing his appointment to the government, right-wing opinion leader Jack posobik tweeted satirizing the Biden administration's creation of a "Ministry of truth" (the Ministry of truth is a fictional government department in Orwell's novel 1984, where the protagonist works. Although it is called the Ministry of truth, it specially publishes false news, observer online note).
Jankovic announced his appointment on April 27
Posobik fans followed. A report showed that by the end of the day, more than 50000 tweets had mentioned the Committee on twitter. In the next few days, the number increased explosively. Since then, right-wing media such as fox news, the New York Post and brightbart news network began to intensively ridicule the U.S. government and yankovic with statements such as the "truth Department". Jankovic's previous reports and "false news" released on tiktok have been "dug graves" one after another.
Covidic was commissioned by the US government
The media learned from several employees of the Ministry of homeland security that the "false information governance committee" was "suspended" only three weeks after its establishment - on Monday (16th), the Ministry of homeland security decided to close the Committee. Yankovic had written his resignation on Tuesday morning.
However, according to several people familiar with the matter, yankovic received an emergency call from an official of the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday night, who said she could choose to stay, although the committee was closed due to boycott. Jankovic was unmoved and officially resigned on Wednesday morning.
Jankovic told CNN that this situation was "frustrating and sad" because she was engaged in this work "in order to serve the American people and use my expertise to protect everyone from threats".
In a statement to the Washington Post, the Department of Homeland Security said Nina Jankovic had been subjected to unreasonable and despicable personal attacks and threats. She is very qualified for the job.
The liberal Washington Post believes that yankovic's experience is a typical example of how right-wing forces on the Internet operate. The far right identifies the target, invents a set of language logic, and then repeats this wrong rhetoric on social media and the Internet to slander and attack anyone who challenges them. Government officials and experts familiar with the committee called yankovic "doomed to failure" because the government was not sure of its message and was not prepared for external attacks.
For onlookers, it is necessary to understand the opposite opinion - the conservative New York Post reported on May 18 that Jankovic was "extremely unfit for the job". She promoted the "Russian door" lie and worked with the Washington Post to suppress the scandal report on Biden's son Hunter Biden.
"Is such a person an expert?" Asked the newspaper.
The New York Post commented that, in short, making Jankovic the head of the "false information governance committee" is to tell everyone that the committee will strengthen the narrative of the left at the expense of the truth. For them, the definition of "false information" is only "facts that the left does not like".
The outside world believes that the set of logic and narrative woven by the left and right sides in cyberspace is incompatible, and there is no "common soil" for communication between the two factions.
An internal Advisory Committee will now review its previous work and make recommendations on its future within the next 75 days after the US government's "false information governance committee" died in just three weeks, the BBC reported.