{"id":33098,"date":"2025-02-12T02:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/homeland-security-puts-staff-involved-in-disinformation-board-on-administrative-leave-review-coming\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T02:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T02:11:24","slug":"homeland-security-puts-staff-involved-in-disinformation-board-on-administrative-leave-review-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/12\/homeland-security-puts-staff-involved-in-disinformation-board-on-administrative-leave-review-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security puts staff involved in ‘disinformation’ board on administrative leave, review coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Homeland Security<\/a> confirmed on Tuesday that some Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) employees who worked on “mis-, dis-, and malinformation” were put on administrative leave.<\/p>\n

In a statement to Scripps News, DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote CISA needs to “refocus on its mission,” starting with election security.<\/a><\/p>\n

“The agency is undertaking an evaluation of how it has executed its election security mission<\/a> with a particular focus on any work related to mis-, dis-, and malinformation,” according to the statement.<\/p>\n

SPEAKER JOHNSON RIPS \u2018LACK OF LEADERSHIP\u2019 IN BIDEN ADMIN’S HELENE RESPONSE: \u2018ALARMED AND DISAPPOINTED\u2019\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

As first reported by Fox News Digital, Homeland Security<\/u><\/a> Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified in April 2022 that the Department of Homeland Security was creating a “Disinformation Governance Board” to combat misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterm election.<\/p>\n

During an appearance before the House Appropriations Subcommittee, Mayorkas said<\/a> a “Disinformation Governance Board” was created to address misinformation campaigns targeting minority communities.<\/p>\n

MAYORKAS RIPS \u2018POLITICIZED\u2019 ATMOSPHERE OVER FEMA DISASTER RESPONSE AMID GOP CRITICISM’<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

While the agency conducts the assessment, personnel who worked on the alleged “mis-, dis-, and malinformation,” as well as foreign influence operations and disinformation, will remain on administrative leave, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

The board was allegedly led by Undersecretary for Policy Rob Silvers, co-chair with principal deputy general counsel Jennifer Gaskill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nina Jankowicz, who previously served as a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, reportedly served as executive director, Politico reported.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Tuesday that some Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) employees who worked on “mis-, dis-, and malinformation” were put on administrative leave. In a statement to Scripps News, DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote CISA needs to “refocus on its mission,” starting with election security. “The agency is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}