This post is misleading. Joe Biden did not initiate this advisory board, the DHS did under the Trump administration.
The Disinformation Governance Board was announced and revealed to the public by the DHS on April 27, 2022, during a 2023 budget hearing before the
United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
[1] The board had begun operating two months prior to the announcement. The DHS had decided to form the board in 2021 after conducting research that recommended creating a group to "review questions of privacy and civil liberty for online content".
[2] White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that the board is the "continuation of work that began in the DHS in 2020 under former President
Trump".
[8] The
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has previously addressed the spread of what they referred to as "mis-, dis-, and
malinformation", as well as addressing
Russian disinformation as part of their election security efforts in 2020.
[9][10] CISA director
Chris Krebs was fired by President Trump