Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, demanding more information about the agency’s expanding disinformation authority.
Sen. James Lankford sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday, demanding more information about the agency’s expanding disinformation authority.
DHS hasn’t given Congress and the American people clear answers about its full intent to combat disinformation. Instead Members of Congress are left to read news reports and leaked documents from whistleblowers that paint a politicized attempt to silence certain viewpoints. I urge you to set expansion of disinformation authorities aside and provide timely answers to Congress.
Please detail the process that DHS and Facebook have created to report disinformation. Is Meta’s third party fact-checking program involved in DHS’s work to report disinformation? If so, in what role?
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