End the cyber agency's work on misinformation
What the document says“Of the utmost urgency is immediately ending CISA’s counter-mis/disinformation efforts. The federal government cannot be the arbiter of truth.”
The chapter says the agency began this work over alleged Russian misinformation in the 2016 election, which it describes as in fact a Clinton campaign dirty trick, and that the Twitter Files show the agency has become what it calls an unconstitutional censoring and election engineering apparatus of the political Left. It says foreign actors should be countered by the Intelligence Community instead, that the entire Cybersecurity Advisory Committee should be dismissed on day one, and that on elections the agency should help states check their cyber hygiene and do nothing more.
What the document actually says“Of the utmost urgency is immediately ending CISA’s counter-mis/disinformation efforts. The federal government cannot be the arbiter of truth.”
Stop this agency's work on false information at once. The government should not decide what is true.
This agency worked on false claims spread online. The book says that is not the government's job. It says the work should stop at once.
Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8243
The order bars every federal department, agency, officer, employee and agent from acting or using federal resources in a way that would unconstitutionally abridge an American citizen's speech, names work carried out under the heading of misinformation, disinformation and malinformation as what it is reversing, and directs the Attorney General to investigate the previous four years of such activity and recommend remedies. It reaches the cyber agency only as one agency among all of them: CISA is never named, no program of the agency is closed by the order, the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee is not dismissed, work against foreign actors is not moved to the Intelligence Community, and what is prohibited is conduct that would be unconstitutional rather than the subject matter itself.
The order bars all federal staff from using funds to cut off free speech. It names work against false news as what it undoes. But the cyber agency is never named and no program of it is closed. Only acts that break the Constitution are barred, not the subject itself.