The Epoch Times Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has admitted that he fared poorly in communicating the purpose of the department’s newly created Disinformation Governance Board, which critics have lambasted as a threat to free speech.
The board has been created to address disinformation which poses a “security threat to the homeland,” Mayorkas said in a recent interview with Fox News. Such disinformation comes from countries like China, Iran, and Russia and also from the cartels. The board’s work will not infringe on free speech, civil liberties, or civil rights, he stressed.
“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 synagogue, and that’s where we get involved,” Mayorkas said…
