Biden’s ‘Disinformation’ Czar Claims That Worries About Leftist Censorship Are a ‘Lie’

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Nina Jankowicz, the flighty far-left foe of the freedom of speech who once proclaimed herself (in a sadly now-deleted X post) as “the Mary Poppins of Disinformation,” has popped up again, but not, alas, to apologize for her attempt to destroy the First Amendment and silence dissidents from the Biden regime. Instead, she is once again trying to gaslight Americans into buying the lie that her abortive “Disinformation Governance Board” was not an attempt to stigmatize and silence those who dared to express views that opposed what the regime wanted them to think.

In a lengthy screed in The Bulwark, a publication that was founded to heap hatred upon Donald Trump, Jankowicz claims that patriots’ concerns about leftist censorship are all based on lies, and that the real foe of the freedom of speech is (you guessed it) Trump himself. Yes, Jankowicz is indeed “the Mary Poppins of Disinformation,” but not in the way that she would have us believe.

In the article, Jankowicz calls concerns about censorship a “right-wing fever dream.” She complains that “for the past four years, the Republican party has engaged in obsessive mythmaking about supposed collusion by Democrats, disinformation researchers, and the social media industry to suppress conservative viewpoints online.”

Jankowicz’s first gambit to prove this claim to be false is to give us an argument from authority, which any student of logic will tell you is the weakest of all arguments: “reputable journalists,” she says, “have punctured holes in this narrative.” And not just “reputable journalists,” but also “academics, too, have looked into the question and found not a vast conspiracy aimed at censoring conservatives but a clear imbalance: right-wing users simply break social media platforms’ rules more frequently.”

Oh, well, then! Reputable journalists and academics have assured us that there’s no left-wing censorship! That’s almost as good as 51 top intelligence professionals assuring us that Hunter Biden’s compromising laptop was Russian disinformation, eh, Janko?

If that isn’t enough to get you back in the leftists’ line and to stop whining about your precious freedom of speech, Jankowicz follows her argument from authority with some good old-fashioned name-calling. She claims that House Republicans’ investigations of leftist censorship (she testified at a hearing on this last week) are nothing more than “modern-day McCarthyism.” This is, of course, just another way of saying that the Republican claim about censorship is false, and Jankowicz laments that despite its falsity, “it has had dire consequences; disinformation researchers have faced threats, harassment, and declining funding as a result.”

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