credit: Homeland Security NJ
"New Jersey’s Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness has unveiled a new disinformation portal designed to help people identify truth-obscuring, manufactured information -- from deepfakes to altered videos and text and the groups behind them."
"Disinformation can have an insidious impact on the overall threat landscape," NJOHSP Director Laurie Doran said. "In an age where the public has become increasingly dependent on online forums and social media platforms to stay informed, we all have a higher responsibility to scrutinize the information we’re consuming."
“The reality is no one platform or agency has the manpower or means to track and dispel the amount of disinformation being circulated," added NJOHSP Deputy Director Eric Tysarczyk. "With this portal, we’re now equipping the public with the tools needed to decipher the information for themselves."
According to the Feds, there is not one platform or government agency that can dispel disinformation so who do you think officials want to use?
One of biggest perpetrators of disinformation in the business and it is not a federal agency named the CIA or the FBI.
The feds have decided to let DHS-run fusion centers disseminate government-approved news using their newly created 'disinformation portal’.
Under the "What Groups Employ Disinformation Campaigns" section, DHS claims that their old nemeses China, Russia and Iran are behind a lot of disinformation. But then they add their own fear-inducing spin by claiming domestic extremists are behind many disinformation campaigns in the U.S.
"Various actors, including foreign adversaries such as China, Russia, and Iran, as well as extremist groups, leverage international crises and high-profile incidents to spread disinformation and misinformation to sow discord in the United States."
As I pointed out two weeks ago, fusion centers also allege that there are at least 23 different types of violent extremists in America.
"Based on the above information, one can expect that in the near future the Feds will add Anti-Republican extremists, Anti-Democrat extremists, Anti-Big Tech extremists, Anti-Vaccine extremists, Anti-Vaccine Passport extremists, Anti-Digital ID extremists, and Anti-School Book extremists to their growing list of violent extremists."
Ironically, DHS admits that violent domestic extremists are circulating disinformation using the same tactics that they themselves have been using for years.
"The circulation of misinformation and disinformation has the potential to reach a broad audience, incite fear, create distrust between governments and their people, increase polarization in groups and influence governmental actions or law enforcement responses. Several known disinformation campaigns have spurred incidents that were ultimately reported to the New Jersey Suspicious Activity System, as they motivated individuals to act against government officials, law enforcement, critical infrastructure and the general public."
"The assessment details activities from homegrown violent extremists, domestic extremists and foreign terrorist organizations, in addition to highlighting cybersecurity and critical infrastructure threats."
"Anarchist, anti-abortion, anti-government, black racially motivated, militia and sovereign citizen extremists comprise domestic moderate threats. Domestic extremists are expected to return to pre-pandemic operating norms, shifting their focus to local expansion, participating in demonstrations and engaging in low-level criminal activity."