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☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org 🙅🏻‍♀️ Author, disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse. 😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult

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Nina Jankowicz is an American researcher and writer. She is the author of How to Lose the Information War (2020), on Russian use of disinformation as geopolitical strategy, and How to Be a Woman Online (2022), a handbook for fighting against online harassment of women. She briefly served as executive director of the newly created United States Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Disinformation Governance Board, resigning from the position after three weeks in May 2022. .. more

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · Apr 28

According to the people who make money lying about me on the Internet, I have risen from the dead, crawled out of a hidey hole, or otherwise “come back” more than 50 times over the past three years—a rate of 1.38 resurrections per month.

Jesus who?

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Don't call it a comeback

Three years later, extremists are still obsessed with me

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 7h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 20h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

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Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 2d

"In the end, no milquetoast mediator can reason with the insatiable appetite of authoritarianism."

Every sentence is perfection 🤌

Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 2d

every line is perfection

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 3d

I had my first run-in with Trump 2.0 complicity days after the 2024 election.

Since then we've seen more examples from media, universities, law firms & many others.

Does what the little guys do matter? Yes, more than ever.

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How to Not Capitulate for Dummies

A framework for weighing decisions under Trump.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 3d

Bingo.

No amount of good behavior, of distancing yourself from perceived toxicity, of twisting yourself into a pretzel is going to save you from the whims of this administration’s retribution.

I wrote about this a few weeks ago:

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 3d

Smdh. “Changes have hit particularly hard in CISA’s Capacity Building team, which writes emergency directives and oversees cybersecurity for the government’s highest value assets.”

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Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 4d

There is nothing strategic about obeisance. There is nothing practical about complicity.

A simple framework on how to weigh tough decisions in the Trump era: do the opposite.

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How to Not Capitulate for Dummies

A framework for weighing decisions under Trump.

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Substack

How to Not Capitulate for Dummies

A framework for weighing decisions under Trump. Mark your calendars! I’m going live on Substack with Kristofer Goldsmith tomorrow (Thursday, October 9) at 12 ET! Join us.

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Dean Jackson @dwj88.bsky.social · 5d

A secret meeting with X. A senior State Dept. advisor just out of college. The VP's speech in Munich. Pressure on European regulators.

What do they share? They're all part of an agenda to turn the transatlantic alliance into a far right international:

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Trump’s State Department Wants to Use Tech Policy to Remake Europe In Its Image | TechPolicy.Press

Tech policy is a key part of the Trump administration's dramatic project to replace the US's traditional European alliances, Dean Jackson writes.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 8d

Appreciate that and you! 🙏

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 8d

Hey, thanks so much for this for this- Ben was getting a very generic screen on the interface that just said “these ads ran without a disclaimer”— see below—the filter you used was not present in his interface. I’m taking down these posts and we’re looking into it

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 8d

Not really. Political advertising is an important way for little-known candidates to increase name recognition and reach their constituents. If regulated and transparent, online advertising can be an equalizer. We have a bad view of it because it hasn't been transparent and has been abused

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 9d

Happy Taylor Swift Day to all who celebrate ✨

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9d

This was done at the direction of Pam Bondi. The US government is now dictating what apps you can have on your phone.

The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.

Alt text: Screenshot of a Fox News Digital article reporting that Apple removed the ICEBlock tracking app from its App Store after the Department of Justice raised safety concerns. The article states DOJ officials, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, asked Apple to take down the app, claiming it endangered law enforcement officers and shielded illegal immigrants. Bondi confirmed the removal in a statement, saying ICEBlock put ICE agents at risk and emphasized DOJ’s commitment to protecting federal officers.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10d

Fucking terrifying.

Especially as a woman, especially as someone who has been threatened by violent individuals online for 3+ years.

A responsible administration would be addressing this as a matter of urgency, but the Trump administration *want us* to live in fear.

CNN @cnn.com · 10d

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

ICE impersonator incidents rise during Trump’s second term | CNN

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

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CNN @cnn.com · 10d

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

ICE impersonator incidents rise during Trump’s second term | CNN

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10d

I am so happy that I will be on an airplane (probably with no internet access) while this is happening because... this is going to be so fucking stupid (starting with the fact that Cruz's report seems to have some difficulty recognizing that someone other than Biden was president from 2018-2020).

Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans
October 1, 2025
Chairman Cruz Announces Full Committee Hearing on October 8th at 10:00 AM EST

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing titled “Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans” on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM EST. The hearing will examine how government agencies have used tactics to pressure Big Tech into censoring speech protected by the First Amendment, a practice known as “jawboning.”

The hearing will expand upon the themes in Sen. Cruz’s recently released report on a censorship campaign conducted in secret by the Biden administration’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The report demonstrates that the agency infringed on the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies to censor Americans that held views different than the Biden administration. CISA faced little pushback from the tech industry or the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, enabling the agency to avoid accountability. Sen. Cruz warns that CISA’s unchecked censorship serves as a cautionary tale for future policy related to artificial intelligence, a new medium to share and receive information, and one that progressives across the world are already trying to control. The hearing will explore legislative solutions to safeguard Americans from jawboning.

Upon announcing the hearing, Sen. Cruz said:

Witnesses:

Mr. Eugene Volokh, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University and Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles
Mr. Alex Berenson, Independent Journalist and Author
Mr. Sean Davis, Chief Executive Officer, The Federalist
An additional witness may be announced at a later date.

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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.bsky.social · 11d

The amazing @ninajankowicz.com does a deep dive into the machinations of the Jim Jordan reality-inversion machine which recently claimed that Tech Giants were pressured by Biden admin into "censorship." They weren't. And they said so in front of Jordan's committee:

Jim Jordan Claims Google Censored Conservatives. His Own Committee’s Work Shows Otherwise.

Google execs’ interviews before the House Judiciary Committee show no evidence of “censorship” or government coercion - so who’s lying?

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 11d

Proud to have signed this important letter to get Mario Guevara free.

“To treat his case as a matter of immigration enforcement is to obscure the essential truth: Mario Guevara is being punished for his reporting.”

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Detention of Reporter Mario Guevara Sparks Outcry from Writers, Journalists, and Scholars

Renowned writers and journalists sign on to a letter decrying the detention of journalist Mario Guevara who has been in ICE custody 100 days.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 12d

👆🏻 👆🏻 👆🏻

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 12d

ICYMI, I spent over a dozen hours reading through Google’s interview transcripts that prove Jim Jordan is lying.

It’s worth actually reading the piece to understand the total lack of compunction at play here.

Pls click thru, read, and ❤️

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 12d

Annnnnnd now this. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/t...

Google is totally complicit in laundering this totally BS narrative 🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 13d

Because people are litigious and I can't afford to be sued. they do it enough with no reason to, I don't want to give them one.

I use the L word plenty of times in the piece, and I've been plenty blunt throughout my career.

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Bill Adair @billadair.com · 13d

Smart and thorough analysis from @ninajankowicz.com: Jim Jordan Claims Google Censored Conservatives. His Own Committee’s Work Shows Otherwise. wiczipedia.substack.com/p/jim-jordan...

Jim Jordan Claims Google Censored Conservatives. His Own Committee’s Work Shows Otherwise.

Google execs’ interviews before the House Judiciary Committee show no evidence of “censorship” or government coercion - so who’s lying?

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 13d

Remember how Jim Jordan was celebrating last week, claiming Google had censored conservatives and his committee uncovered it?

Well, his own committee's documents show he's lying.

open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

Jim Jordan Claims Google Censored Conservatives. His Own Committee’s Work Shows Otherwise.

Google execs’ interviews before the House Judiciary Committee show no evidence of “censorship” or government coercion - so who’s lying?

open.substack.com

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