"The DHS remit then expanded beyond “disinformation” produced by foreign governments to include “disinformation” produced by domestic actors. Officials’ stated justification for this fairly blatant mission creep was that terror threats can be “exacerbated by misinformation and disinformation spread online”.
According to documents reviewed by Klippenstein and Fang, the DHS aims to counteract “inaccurate information” on a wide range of topics, including “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine”.
