House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy slammed President Joe Biden ‘s new Disinformation Governance Board as “un-American abuse of power” while he threw his support behind a Republican bill that would terminate the new bureau, which conservatives have dubbed the “Ministry of Truth” in comparison to George Orwell’s novel 1984. “It’s a scheme conjured up by Washington Democrats to grant themselves the authority to control free speech,” McCarthy said at a Wednesday press briefing. “They fear Americans having unfettered access to information because it will challenge the power that they want to have over people’s lives,” the GOP leader said. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of the board to help combat the spread of disinformation online. While the DHS has said the “working group” will target disinformation that threatens national security, critics of the bureau warn that it is an attempt from the federal government to police free speech on the internet. “It’s un-American, it’s wrong, and we will do everything in our power to stop it,” McCarthy said of the Disinformation Governance Board. On Wednesday, House Republicans used billionaire Elon Musk ‘s latest comments on reinstating former President Donald Trump ‘s Twitter account to suggest… Read full this story
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