Mayorkas Confronted About Disinformation Board Leader’s TikTok Videos
Conservatives have blasted the head of the Biden administration’s new Disinformation Governance Board over videos she shared on TikTok. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas , whose agency established the…
Conservatives have blasted the head of the Biden administration’s new Disinformation Governance Board over videos she shared on TikTok.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose agency established the panel, faced questions about how much was known about Nina Jankowicz’s– the leader of the board — social media use.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked, “When the department picked her was the department aware of her TikTok videos?”
“They’re really quite precocious,” he added in what appeared to be a jab at one of her videos that has gone viral.
Mayorkas responded, “I was not aware of those videos.”
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Last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it is creating the Disinformation Governance Board.
Mayorkas told CNN on Sunday that the board does not have operational authority and is intended to “ensure that the way in which we address threats, the connectivity between threats and acts of violence, are addressed without infringing on free speech. Protecting civil rights and civil liberties, the right of privacy.”