The Disinformation Governance Board created by the Department of Homeland Security has met its end amid conservative fears that it amounted to a government censorship body.
CNN reported Aug. 24 that DHS had “officially disbanded its controversial disinformation board, months after it was put on pause amid intense Republican-led backlash.”
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “has terminated the Disinformation Governance Board and rescinded its charter effective today, August 24, 2022,” DHS spokeswoman Marsha Espinosa said in a statement quoted by CNN.
The board’s stated purpose was “to coordinate department activities related to disinformation aimed at the US population and infrastructure,” CNN said. But many conservatives expressed outrage at what they said was a potential for federal censorship of unpopular views in the name of national security.