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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., took aim at the Department of Homeland Security’s newly created “disinformation board,” calling on it to be dissolved.
“There’s no ‘confusion’ over the Biden Disinformation Board,” Hawley said on Twitter Monday. “Everyone understands exactly what it is – a censorship committee to punish free speech. Dissolve it now.”
Sen. Josh Hawley
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In a later tweet, Hawley vowed to introduce legislation aimed at eliminating the board.
“If Joe Biden won’t dissolve his unconstitutional Disinformation Board, Congress should,” he said. “I will introduce legislation this week to eliminate the Board and forbid the government ever to create another one. It’s time to stand up for free speech.”
Hawley’s comments come in response to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who told “Fox News Sunday” that the Biden administration “”could have done a better job in communicating” the intent of the board.
While critics such as Hawley have expressed concerns over the board’s potential to regulate free speech, Mayorkas insisted it was created to combat “disinformation that presents a security threat to the homeland.”
“Disinformation from Russia, from China, from Iran, from the cartels,” Mayorkas said.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
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“This is a working group that takes best practices to make sure that, in addressing disinformation that presents a threat to the homeland, our work does not infringe on free speech, does not infringe on civil rights, civil liberties,” he continued. “It’s not about speech, it’s about the connectivity to violence. That is what we need to address. You know, an individual has the free speech right to spew anti-Semitic rhetoric. What they don’t have the right to do is take hostages in a…
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