The Would possibly 4 editorial “2022 isn’t ‘1984’ ” was once proper to chase away in opposition to Republicans’ characterization of the Disinformation Governance Board (DGB), the Division of Native land Safety’s newest initiative to battle threats from incorrect information and disinformation, as an Orwellian arbiter of reality. The narrative of the DGB because the “Ministry of Reality” is itself disinformation, and we will have to disregard it as such.
We will have to as an alternative welcome any other useful resource to combat disinformation, specifically campaigns that focus on communities of colour. Voto Latino, as an example, lately polled 2,464 Latinos, and two-thirds reported seeing false electoral fraud claims in regards to the 2020 presidential election. False election fraud narratives erode accept as true with within the electoral gadget and threaten to suppress turnout.
Native land Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged the issue of Spanish-language disinformation throughout his testimony prior to Congress and indexed bringing in combination Native land Safety sources to deal with the specter of disinformation in minority communities as one of the vital DGB’s operational targets.
We applaud Mr. Mayorkas’s dedication to battle all threats to our democracy from disinformation and supply Congress with quarterly development experiences. We want larger transparency round efforts to counter non-English disinformation and invite tech platforms to sign up for him.
Liz Lebron, Charleston, S.C.
The author is a analysis supervisor at Voto Latino’s Latino Anti-Disinformation Lab.
