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Hello, I am dead now. Sorry! All gone!
The Biden administration has created a Disinformation Governance Board in the Department of Homeland Security. The person hired to be the executive director is a former “disinformation fellow” at, wait for it, the Wilson Center.
No need to discuss this at length, because other Substack pages already have it mostly covered. (Read this one or this one.)
However:
The Wilson Center, of course, is named for President Woodrow Wilson — the person who established the Committee on Public Information in 1917, to control the press during the Great War.
Here’s what that linked story says about it, and it’s like reading today’s news:
In its crusade to “make the world safe for democracy,” the Wilson administration took immediate steps at home to curtail one of the pillars of democracy – press freedom – by implementing a plan to control, manipulate and censor all news coverage, on a scale never seen in U.S. history.
Following the lead of the Germans and British, Wilson elevated propaganda and censorship to strategic elements of all-out war. Even before the U.S. entered the war, Wilson had expressed the expectation that his fellow Americans would show what he considered “loyalty.”
Immediately upon entering the war, the Wilson administration brought the most modern management techniques to bear in the area of government-press relations. Wilson started one of the earliest uses of government propaganda. He waged a campaign of intimidation and outright suppression against those ethnic and socialist papers that continued to oppose the war. Taken together, these wartime measures added up to an unprecedented assault on press freedom.
The Biden administration has just hired a Wilson Center fellow to re-establish the Creel Committee. There’s no tone-deafness left. They just used it all.
I…just…I mean…
"What's that, citizen? Did you ... did you deadname the health secretary AND misgender them? That's Russian disinformation. There's a war on you know. Best mind your pronouns or the DHS will be freezing your accounts for supporting terrorism."
The current undeclared "war" seems to be between our self appointed, oh so smug 'rulers' and we deplorables, the great unwashed. As our natural superiors, 'they' have assumed the right arbitrarily determine what we can say, to whom, when, and through what medium. It only makes sense that they would formalize the process. A "Disinformation Governance Board" is a logical step. And I greatly fear the next step. As the current occupant, (whether he knows it or not), of the WH has declaimed. "He has the guns".