Nina Jankowicz

Nina Morgan Jankowicz (born 1988/1989) is an American researcher, author, and commentator specializing in disinformation and the executive director of the United States Department of Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board.[1][2][3][4]

Nina Jankowicz
Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board
Assumed office
April 27, 2022
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byPosition established
Personal details
Born1988/1989 (age 32–33)
EducationBryn Mawr College (BA)
Georgetown University (MA)
WebsitePersonal website

Career

Jankowicz attended Bryn Mawr College, double-majoring in Russian and political science.[5] She attended a semester at Herzen State Pedagogical University in Russia in 2010,[6] and graduated in 2011.[5] In 2017, she was a Fulbright fellow in Kyiv, working with the foreign ministry of Ukraine.[7] She has also served as a disinformation fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and as supervisor of the Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute.[8] She is the author of two books (How to Lose the Information War[7][3][9][10] and How to be a Woman Online[11][12]) and has contributed to The Washington Post and The New York Times.[4] She has testified before the United States Congress and the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[13][14][15][16]

Disinformation Governance Board

In April 2022, she was selected to head the newly formed Disinformation Governance Board of the United States Department of Homeland Security.[1][2]

Jankowicz's appointment to the board drew scrutiny to her previous posts online; National Review and the Washington Examiner maligned her criticism of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which she sought to discredit as Russian disinformation.[17][18][19] She received further criticism separately in both the Washington Examiner and National Review for her August 2020 praise of Christopher Steele (author of the Steele dossier) and his views on disinformation.[18][17] On April 29, Republican senator Josh Hawley criticized Jankowicz's "leftist radical" views on Twitter,[20] while National Review said she had a "spotty record of identifying disinformation," and had played a "considerable role in promoting it".[18]

In response, Jankowicz said that "at least one of her tweets was taken out of context".[18] On May 1, 2022, on CNN's State of The Union, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Jankowicz was "eminently qualified, a renowned expert in the field of disinformation" and that she was "neutral".[21]

Personal life

Jankowicz has an interest in musical theatre.[7]

References
  1. "DHS Standing Up Disinformation Governance Board Led by Information Warfare Expert". Homeland Security Today. April 28, 2022.
  2. Daniels, Eugene; Bade, Rachael; Lizza, Ryan. "POLITICO Playbook: Fauci pulls out of WHCD. Is Biden next?". POLITICO.
  3. Fadel, Leila (August 16, 2020). "Author Nina Jankowicz On Disinformation And Her New Book". All Things Considered. NPR. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  4. "Nina Jankowicz". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  5. "Nina Jankowicz '11 Publishes Book on the Information War". Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  6. "Nina Jankowicz — The Cosmopolitan Review".
  7. Yaffa, Joshua (2020-09-03). "Is Russian Meddling as Dangerous as We Think?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  8. Daniels, Eugene; Bade, Rachael; Lizza, Ryan. "POLITICO Playbook: Fauci pulls out of WHCD. Is Biden next?". POLITICO. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  9. Gentile, Michael (2020-09-21). "How to lose the information war – Russia, fake news and the future of conflict". Eurasian Geography and Economics. 0 (0): 1–3. doi:10.1080/15387216.2020.1825982. ISSN 1538-7216.
  10. Gamberini, Sarah. "How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict". Joint Force Quarterly. National Defense University Press. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  11. "Nonfiction Book Review: How to be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back by Nina Jankowicz". Publishers Weekly. 2022-04-01. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  12. Huminski, Joshua (April 9, 2022). "Being a Woman Online & the Absence of Decency". Diplomatic Courier. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
  13. Jankowicz, Nina (12 June 2018). "Jankowicz_HPSCI_Statement" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  14. Jankowicz, Nina (10 July 2019). "HHRG-116-AP04-Wstate-JankowiczN-20190710" (PDF). United States House Committee on Appropriations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  15. "MISINFORMATION, CONSPIRACY THEORIES, AND "INFODEMICS": STOPPING THE SPREAD ONLINE" (PDF). Congress.gov. U.S. House of Representatives, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  16. "Formal meeting (oral evidence session): Draft Online Safety Bill". UK Parliament. 13 September 2021. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  17. "Biden 'disinformation' chief a Trump dossier author fan and Hunter Biden laptop doubter". Washington Examiner. 2022-04-28. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
  18. "Meet Nina Jankowicz, Biden's New Disinformation Czar". National Review. April 29, 2022.
  19. Blake, Aaron. "The uproar over Homeland Security's Disinformation Governance Board". The Washington Post.
  20. Miller, Andrew Mark. "Biden's disinformation director referred to Hunter's laptop as a 'Trump campaign product'". Fox News. Fox News. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  21. "Transcripts, State of the Union Poland Welcoming Ukrainian Refugees; Interview With Fmr. Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX); Interview With U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas; Interview With Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR). Aired 9-10a ET". CNN. 2022-05-01. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
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