NEW YORK — The former executive director of the Department of Homeland Security's short-lived disinformation board is suing Fox News for defamation, in the same court where the network just settled its suit with Dominion Voting Systems.
Nina Jankowicz was tapped to lead the Disinformation Governance Board, which was created last spring by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to"protect Americans from disinformation that threatens the homeland" -- but the board immediately found detractors in the GOP and some leading civil liberties groups over concerns that Jankowicz and the board would be acting as"truth police.
Jankowicz's lawsuit, filed in Delaware state court, alleges that Fox defamed Jankowicz by telling viewers that the board was out to censor the American public, causing Jankowicz to be"doxed, threatened, harassed relentlessly, and even cyberstalked." The lawsuit alleges that Fox made those statements despite knowing that the Disinformation Governance Board"had no ability to intervene, respond to, or prevent the spread of disinformation. Nor did it have any power or purpose to silence speech or surveil citizens."
Jankowicz's suit says that over the course of eight months, Fox talked about Jankowicz 300 times. When the board was first announced, says the suit,"70% of Fox's one-hour segments mentioned Jankowicz or the board, always in inaccurate, melodramatic, and venomous terms."
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