Grassley, Hawley press DHS on Disinformation Board partnership with big tech to censor content

Top-ranking Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Josh Hawley sent a letter on Wednesday demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about the Disinformation Governance Board's plans to work with social media platforms to censor content, as shown in official records.

The Senate Judiciary Committee members are concerned "that DHS could be seeking an active role in coordinating the censorship of viewpoints that it determines, according to an unknown standard, to be [misinformation, disinformation or malformation] by enlisting the help of social media companies and big tech," Grassley and Hawley wrote in a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The secretary announced the Disinformation Governance Board in April to heavy criticism. The Biden administration put the project on hold the following month and board head Nina Jankowicz resigned.