Nina Jankowicz, the former head of the dismantled Department of Health and Human Services’ “Disinformation Governance Board,” is like a bad case of poison oak: she gets more contagious and looks more ulcerous with every appearance.
When last we heard from Jankowicz, her defamation lawsuit against Fox News had been tossed, and as my colleague Brad Slager reported, Jankowicz registered as a foreign agent and created the deceptively named “American Sunlight Project.”
What has become obvious is that these outfits are rather targeted in their goals, given most of those appear to only focus on the right. This is certainly the case with the American Sunlight Project, as evidenced in the subheader of her introduction for the group in the New York Times in April: The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as a coordinated campaign by conservatives and their allies to undermine researchers who study disinformation.
When it begins with the premise that only the right requires correcting, you already see the problems with the intent. But it goes further than that, as one of the stated missions of the ASP is to not only address the misinformation and ostensibly correct it, but to explore and expose the entities behind these alleged crimes against the truth.
Jankowicz is seriously butthurt, not only because she was stripped of her “dream job,” but because her so-called life’s work is being called into question, and being exposed for what it is: hackery and partisan censorship.
What she calls the protection of democracy and free speech, we call government encroachment and infringement on civil liberties. In April, Jankowicz testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the “Censorship Industrial Complex,” saying it was her patriotic duty to do so, and claimed the entire concept of government censorship under the Biden administration was “a fiction.”
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Nina Jankowicz (aka Scary Poppins) is back, ranting during a Congressional hearing on the “Censorship Industrial Complex” that it’s a “lie” that her Disinformation Governance Board was engaged in censorship. She’s clearly angry that she lost her job due to the public outrage over… pic.twitter.com/vvfMvNKrjX
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) April 2, 2025
Nina Jankowicz (aka Scary Poppins) is back, ranting during a Congressional hearing on the “Censorship Industrial Complex” that it’s a “lie” that her Disinformation Governance Board was engaged in censorship. She’s clearly angry that she lost her job due to the public outrage over the “Ministry of Truth.”
When she sued Fox News for defamation for saying she was involved in censorship, the judge dismissed the case because she hadn’t even made a plausible claim that the statements were false. The ruling states that it was a fact that the Disinformation Governance Board’s purpose was censorship.
It seems nothing can deter this woman’s sense of righteous indignation!
Denying reality, Jankowicz claimed that the hearing was akin to “21st Century McCarthyism” and was “buoyed” by the Twitter Files. She further claimed that “the only reason the censorship lie has been perpetuated is because it is politically and financially beneficial to those who peddle it.”
So, then, what is Jankowicz’s purpose in going on European soil to call out her home country as the threat? On Tuesday, the European Parliament’s Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield held a hearing and asked Jankowicz to give “expert” testimony on Russia’s disinformation campaigns, cyberattacks, espionage, and other hybrid threats targeting Europe. Instead of focusing just on the subject at hand, Jankowicz chose in her remarks to sic the EU on America and on the tech organizations she herself attempted to control when she served the Biden administration.
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WATCH: Biden’s Minister of Truth Nina Jankowicz is back. This time she is trying to undercut the United States of America while speaking to the European Parliament:
“I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy, the United States of America. The Trump… pic.twitter.com/1F2M6F6Gza
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 22, 2025
And so, before I describe the details of Russia’s recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America. The Trump administration is undoubtedly preparing a pressure campaign to force EU institutions to roll back regulation like the DSA, to end support for Ukraine, to stop holding Russia to account. Do not capitulate. Hold the line. Doing so is the clearest signal the European Union could send to Russia and other adversaries that it will not stop fighting to preserve democracy at home and around the world. The Russian Federation, of course, is thrilled to witness division within and between democracies. Moscow continues to actively exploit deepening fissures in our society, in order to amplify discord and polarization.
Jonathan Turley also took note of this focus on the United States being the enemy of free speech, as well as Jankowicz’s penchant to only call out disinformation from countries, people, and organizations she doesn’t like.
I have been a long critic of Jankowicz, who became an instant Internet sensation due to a musical number in which she sang “You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation” in a TikTok parody of the song “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” After the Biden Administration reluctantly disbanded her board, she later moved to join a European group as a foreign agent to continue her work to block views that she considers disinformation.
The false portrayal of the United States as a lawless, autocratic nation no doubt thrilled the Europeans. In announcing her heading a private disinformation group called the American Sunlight Project, Jankowicz used the same hysteria to attract donors, insisting that “Disinformation knows no political party. Its ultimate victim is our democracy.”
Of course, Jankowicz herself has been accused of disinformation that served one particular party. She was previously criticized for allegedly spreading disinformation and advocating censorship.
Jankowicz is as treacherous as she is ridiculous. We defend her First Amendment rights even when it involves maligning American ideals, furthering lies, and fomenting division.
We already know she would never do the same.
