On April 27th, political activist Candace Owens tweeted, "A literal, actual Ministry of Truth. In the book, the Ministry of Truth is essentially in charge of falsifying, doctoring and erasing traces of historical events to portray the truth in a government-approved manner, as they want it to be seen by the people. Some critics of the board compared it to the "Ministry of Truth" from George Orwell's book 1984. You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation ??♀️ /WVQFA2bPmq On April 29th, Hawley retweeted a post from Jankowicz's where she shared a video from her private TikTok page singing a song about disinformation to the tune of the Mary Poppins song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (shown below). Considering 'U' and 'R' to be abbreviations for 'you' and 'are' and splitting the letters into words appropriately, there. In order, these letters are U, R, M, R, G, A, and Y. Certain letters in the title are adorned with sparkles. On the same day, Twitter meme page posted a meme using the Support The Current Thing and Hand Pointing A Gun memes over Jankowicz's portrait, gaining over 1,100 likes in two days (shown below). U R MR GAY refers to a coincidental quirk in the lettering that appears in the title of Super Mario Galaxy.
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Jankowicz shared the announcement in a series of tweets that day (shown below, left and right).
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Formerly, Jankowicz was a fellow at the Wilson Center, author of the book How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict, an advisor to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and oversaw Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute.
41) When your mom out but she calls you while you beating your meat and you gotta make some censored up when she asks what you doing. Your memes are offensive and vulgar, I’m unfriending you. Nina Jankowicz was announced as the executive director of the board. 40) Just don’t unfriend these funny dirty memes. The goal is to bring the resources of the department together to address this threat." "Our Undersecretary for Policy, Rob Silvers is co-chair with our Principal Deputy General Counsel, Jennifer Gaskell, in leading a just recently constituted misinformation disinformation governance board. of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas says a "Disinformation Governance Board" is being created to counter misinformation. Mayorkas answered, revealing that the DHS has recently set up a "misinformation disinformation governance board" to counter misinfo and disinfo (shown below).
During the hearing, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is asked what steps they've taken to tackle misinformation and disinformation, specifically in Spanish-language communities and surrounding Russian election fraud. “The limp wrist feels like a throwback in some ways I remember it felt like a ubiquitous homophobic mocking gesture from my time as a closeted kid in the late 90s and early 00s,” said Philip Ellis, a journalist who wrote a piece for GQ magazine in 2019 about gay men adopting the word “faggot” as a term of pride.Įllis pointed out that the LGBTQ community has for several years used images of limp wrists as memes.On April 27th, 2022, a 2023 budget hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security was held. Most recently, this has involved many people choosing to identify as “queer” or using that word as a shorthand to describe the broader community - although some still find this offensive. The LGBTQ community has a long history of reclaiming things that were once used as derogatory slurs against them. She mainly calls out cishet dudes, who constantly need and deserve to be taken down a peg. The memer, iliterallycat, tackles social issues outside of lesbian drama that makes her page both humorous and educational. (According to a 2012 Slate piece, limp wrists have been deemed “unmanly” since ancient Rome). This meme account encompasses so many experiences beyond just dating women, which makes its power even stronger. The 18-year-old said he thought the action would be instantly “relatable” to others in the LGBTQ community, even though he also recognized it had offensive roots. BuzzFeed News can’t 100% confirm if Hallows came up with the limp wrist meme, but he was the earliest we could find and recalled devising it as something different from what he had seen trending. By this time, “Kiss Me More” had been a viral hit on TikTok for months, but that point of the song was mainly used for clips featuring sudden transitions.