Lately, however, it has instead been in the business of censoring information on private social media platforms, at universities, and more. This is strikingly similar to other disinformation efforts at the DHS, the White House, and other parts of the Biden administration that have come to light recently.
Unsurprisingly, the Department of Homeland Security has been redefining, manipulating, and controlling “misinformation,” “disinformation,” “threats to democracy,” and so on for many years.
So, how did this happen at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, specifically?
“At one level, it happened through sheer definitional sleight of hand: In 2017, ‘cybersecurity’ was redefined, effectively, to mean ‘cyber defense of democracy’; in 2018, ‘disinformation’ was defined, effectively, as a ‘threat to democracy’; and so, by 2019, DHS could cite ‘cybersecurity’ as encompassing ‘cyber defense against digital disinformation,’ requiring varying techniques of digital censorship to stop the digital disinformation ...
“The short answer is that in late 2019, the DHS pulled off what we may call its ‘foreign-to-domestic ‘disinformation’ switcheroo.’”
Disinformation campaigns within the Department of Homeland Security have been hiding for years behind others names, outsourcing of watchdog-type social media missions to contractors and associated organizations, and a lack of an official, singular entity charged with supervising the all-encompassing efforts to strike down information or opinions that challenge the status quo.Until this year when the Department of Homeland Security made the mistake of standing up the official Disinformation Governance Board, its politicized efforts went largely unchecked.
And under this administration, its efforts have increased exponentially.
Now that many of us have learned the breadth and depth of our government’s efforts to censor free speech and suppress truth, let’s not let up on our demands for freedom of speech and accountability.
The agency is abandoning tackling those very real threats in order to pursue political power.
The American people, through our elected representatives, have every right to defund—and demand an end to—government overreach.
The Department of Homeland Security was created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. After marking the 21st anniversary of those attacks on Sunday, the Biden administration must stop using the DHS to advance its leftist agenda through controlled content while our nuclear, cyber, water, energy, and other sectors become more vulnerable to hacking and attacks. Instead, it must restore the department’s original purpose—safeguarding the homeland.