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End the cyber agency's work on misinformation

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 5, p. 155. Written by Ken Cuccinelli.

End the cyber agency's work on misinformation

The document says “shouldWho acts: Secretary of Homeland SecurityHow: internal managementp. 155 in the PDF
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.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 155

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.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 155
That sentence, in plain words

Stop this agency's work on false information at once. The government should not decide what is true.

What this is about

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.

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