meanwhile
i want to bring you some extremely sad
news
the ministry of truth
is no more
that's right the bide administration's
disinformation board or whatever they're
calling it
has been paused indefinitely
and it seems as though sweet sweet nina
jankowicz
woke mary poppins
is resigning
this scoop coming from the washington
post listen to this headline
how the biden administration let
right-wing attacks derail its
disinformation efforts
the quote-unquote pause of the
department of homeland security's newly
created board comes after its head nina
jankowicz was the victim of coordinated
online attacks as the administration
struggled to respond
the byline
taylor lorenz
who is an expert on coordinating online
attacks it's her whole job
so apparently the bite administration
has just knuckled under to right-wing
attacks and in the story it's like this
was mentioned on fox news a lot oh no
how dare we how dare we
it's just a powerful government entity
supposedly and ostensibly designed to
root out misinformation and
disinformation
led by an apparently
unvetted woman
who has been a promiscuous
spreader of miss and disinformation
herself
and strangely
our news organization thought that was
newsworthy
and taylor lorenz an online bully
posing as a journalist
at the washington post seems to think
that the real victim in all of this
is well
cut 11.
informational honoring is really quite
ferocious it's when a hopster takes some
lies and makes them sound precocious by
saying them in congress or a mainstream
outlet so disinformation's origins are
slightly less atrocious
it's how you hide a delighted lie it's
how you hide a little light a little lie
it's how you hide a little idol's lie
when rudy giuliani shared that intel
from ukraine or when tick-tock
influences say covet can cause pain
they're laundering disinfo and we really
should take note and not support their
lies with our wallet voice or vote
there's your victim in all of this sweet
nina
oh sweet nina she'll have much more time
now
for low brow community theater so that's
the plus at least for her
assuming the resignation goes through by
the way i was going to try to cut that
off the clip it's just so much but not
today
not today not for nina she deserved to
be heard
given that her
orwellian
government entity
apparently has had the uh the old plug
pulled she got the old heave-ho
from uncle joe
and of course it's the fault of
right-wing attacks
and by attacks i i assume taylor lorenz
means
direct quotes
woke mary poppins has been
deliberately and in a coordinated way
attacked by people
quoting her verbatim how
dare we
the story from the washington post
dozens of websites including breitbart
post-millennial daily caller new york
post began mining jankowicz's past
social media posts and publishing
articles to generate controversy that is
the exact job description of taylor
lorenz
she's worked a bunch of different places
then like burns the place down as soon
as she leaves most recently the new york
times now she's at the washington post
the entire business model of taylor
lorenz
who poses as like a gen z internet
expert
and she's actually like like six years
older than i am or something
what she does for a living is mining
people's social media posts and
publishing articles to generate
controversy it takes a very special
person
to write that sentence
not realizing
that that's in fact your job
it would be like me being it'd be like
me going on the air and saying
oh something horrible has happened there
is someone who every single day sits
inside in front of a microphone
for three hours
and gives their opinions
mixed in with guests can you believe
that
can you believe how outrageous that is
why would anyone make a living that way
i feel like the second that thought
formed in my brain
i would say oh you know what no let's
not
that's what we do here so let's maybe
not throw stones at that that's just
kind of i don't know basic
self-awareness but no taylor lorenz
maybe maybe taylor
here's the thought taylor lorenz and
nina jankowicz
because lorenz is going to move on from
the washington post at some point she
burns bridges no matter where she goes
so she'll find herself seeking
employment down the line
sooner or later
maybe she and nina
could team up
they could write a whole musical like a
hamilton style musical just much worse
about disinformation
you could bring some people in to
choreograph it do some jazz hands
the snapping like in chicago
i don't know if you can use mary poppins
there's probably some copyright issues
there but maybe like a cheap knockoff
something like that she could star in it
nina could
lorenz could could write the review
of her own
show i'm just spit balling here
but yeah apparently the uh the jig is up
it didn't work out
and one of the arguments that people
are out there making well i'll i'll note
this first
zia jilani who's a writer
posts the story from the washington post
or the right-wing attacks derailing the
disinformation efforts and he asks a
simple question this article
is written without mentioning that nina
jankowicz made a series of demonstrably
false claims herself
yes it was
the disinformation and misinformation
and partisanship spread on the reg by
sweet nina
weirdly didn't make it into the story
blaming the right wing for doing the
thing that taylor lorenz the author of
the piece does for a living every day
isn't that weird
the pushback has been oh this is very
dangerous fox news is dangerous
for highlighting this woman
and featuring this story as much as they
did i find it interesting that the media
apparently seems to think a lot of
journalists seem to think it's really
not that big of a deal to have a
government entity
overseeing what they decide is
disinformation and misinformation which
is very creepy to me
they say oh well they said it was not
going to track
or surveil
or try to punish american citizens this
is going to be about
issues abroad you know what i don't
believe that
i don't believe it for a second sweet
nina didn't really seem that interested
about
foreign adversaries she seemed very
interested about going after
conservatives and republicans
so i just don't believe them
and now we may never know
because
the ministry of truth it seems
is no more let's make sure that actually
happens if there's a follow-through
there's not a bunch of headlines that
it's gone then it's not
so we'll keep tracking this but
sorry mary poppins
in a spoonful of sugar
to have this medicine go down
like her agency apparently has hard
you