Department of Homeland Security pauses disinformation board amid free speech questions

Federal and state agencies treat disinformation as a national security threat. But the new board was hampered from the start.

, the president’s eldest son, and replayed a TikTok video she taped about disinformation to the tune of a song from “Mary Poppins.”

Supporters of Jankowicz have accused the department of not doing enough to protect her from trolls and online attacks. , driven in part by a desire to loosen the platform’s rules around tweets. Others put out false claims that Jankowicz planned to edit the tweets of everyday Twitter users.

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