WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security suspended “misinformation” while suspending “all election security activities” while pending further reviews of the impact of free speech are about to fire an employee.
Dozens of staff from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have previously been on leave. This is because President Trump's team worked to carry out his campaign trail vows to punish officials who regulated American political commentary.
“The CISA focuses specifically on work related to misuse, non-di and maliciousness, in accordance with Executive Order 14149, restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship, and initial review of the election security mission. “We've completed this,” a senior DHS official said. Post.
“The agency is taking appropriate measures regarding employees who are found to have participated in these activities.”
In December 2022, Trump as a candidate banned government officials from labeling political speeches as misinformation and began the process of identifying and firing all federal officials. “They vowed to take a policy video to prohibit them.
Senior DHS officials said the shakeup was “an important part of the greater evaluation of election security activities undertaken by the agency to conduct all reviews of election security, products, activities and personnel.” I explained that.
“It will take effect immediately and CISA will strategically suspend all election security activities until the results of this review come out,” the official said.
CISA has had a controversial relationship with Trump for years. This included in 2020 when the then 45th president fired Christopher Krebs after the then 45th president repeatedly dismissed widespread fraud claims in that year's election.
Towards the end of Trump's first term, during the four-year Biden administration, the use of the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” has later been true to social media companies. They put pressure on them to censor proven information. Wide range of acceptance.
Information previously censored online was not required at CISA's request, but theories that Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab conducting high-risk US-funded research, the FBI now It included positions held by both the CIA and theories that include documents. From his abandoned laptop of his former eldest son, Hunter Biden, he linked former President Joe Biden with business deals between China and Ukraine.
The 20-day assessment by DHS concludes on March 6th about what to do with existing election initiatives. Many of them are not widely known.
“CISA has ended federally funded activities supporting the Election Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analytics Centre (EI-ISAC),” said a DHS official, and the changes have only impacted federal funding. He said the centre itself would not be closed.
“This will not affect the funding of the Multi-State Information and Analysis Centre (MS-ISAC),” officials added.
“The agency has determined that federally funded work organized under EI-ISAC has no longer impacted department priorities.”
