Project Veritas, an investigative journalism project that recently revealed Sen. Lisa Murkowski campaign staffers taking about how their colleagues had worked to rig Alaska elections with Ballot Measure 2 in 2020, has released a newly leaked document showing steps the FBI will take to intervene in “election crimes.”
The document comes at a time when Alaska’s congresswoman has called for “repercussions” against those who spread misinformation online. Congresswoman Mary Peltola, a Democrat, made that remark during a campaign debate on Wednesday in Anchorage.
The FBI lists “misinformation” as a possible election crime, describing it as “false or misleading information spread mistakenly or unintentionally.”
The document categorizes “disinformation” also as a possible election crime, and says it is as “false or inaccurate information intended to mislead others.”
It continues, “Disinformation campaigns on social media are used to deliberately confuse, trick, or upset the public.”
How “misinformation” and/or “disinformation” is distinguished by the FBI isn’t described. But Project Veritas reminds readers that not long ago the Biden Administration attempted to create a “Disinformation Governance Board” at the Department of Homeland Security. Early in the Biden Administration, the effort was focused on unacceptable information about the Covid-19 virus, its origins, treatments, and vaccines.
Now, the focus has turned to elections.
Read more at Project Veritas at this link.
Read: DHS: Terrorism and grievance-based violence is a post-lockdown threat
Under the Biden-Harris Administration, DHS is prioritizing combating all forms of terrorism and targeted violence, including through its efforts to support the first-ever National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. Since January 2021, DHS has taken several steps in this regard, including:
- established a new domestic terrorism branch within DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis dedicated to producing sound, timely intelligence needed to counter domestic terrorism-related threats;
- launched the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) to provide communities with resources and tools to help prevent individuals from radicalizing to violence;
- designated domestic violent extremism as a “National Priority Area” within DHS’s Homeland Security Grant Program for the first time, resulting in at least $77 million being spent on preventing, preparing for, protecting against, and responding to related threats nationwide;
- provided $180 million in funding to support target hardening and other physical security enhancements to non-profit organizations at high risk of terrorist attack through DHS’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP);
- increased efforts to identify and evaluate MDM, including false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories spread on social media and other online platforms, that endorse violence; and,
- enhanced collaboration with public and private sector partners – including U.S. critical infrastructure owners and operators – to better protect our cyber and physical infrastructure and increase the Nation’s cybersecurity through the Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
