Former Disinformation Board Executive Nina Jankowicz, Other DHS Officials, Planned Meeting with Facebook’s Head of Security

Records obtained by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) show that Nina Jankowicz – the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) now-terminated Disinformation Governance Board – and other DHS officials planned to meet with Facebook (now known as Meta) Head of Security Nathaniel Gleicher, who served under that title when the company suppressed the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

Hawley recently obtained DHS documents showing email correspondence among employees, including Jankowicz, regarding the Disinformation Governance Board and its steering group. While Hawley noted in a letter to Mayorkas that previous whistleblower documents “revealed that the Board was engaging with Twitter on possible censorship activities,” the trove of heavily redacted documents he obtained last week indicates Jankowicz and officials from other groups within the DHS planned to meet with Gleicher this past April.

On March 31, Sandra Luff – a registered lobbyist for Facebook, per Open Secrets, and its director of Executive Branch Public Policy, according to  Legistorm – emailed DHS Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans Robert Silvers about setting up a meeting. Though the unredacted parts of the email do not explicitly say who from Facebook would be involved in such a meeting, she concluded the email with a short biography about Gleicher.