Nina Jankowicz

@ninajankowicz.com

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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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Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Nina Jankowicz, Rebecca Tushnet , and 2 more Anne Applebaum, Nina Jankowicz, Rebecca Tushnet, Kate Starbird, David Darmofal

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13h

Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 17h

Very good news for my dear friend whose green card the Trump administration is unjustly attempting to overturn 🎄

Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social · 17h

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

A bit of real cheer for us all!

🎅🎄🤶🌲

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden

Imran Ahmed @imranahmed.bsky.social · 17h

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

A bit of real cheer for us all!

🎅🎄🤶🌲

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 1d

While my pierogi dough rests, reflecting on how it’s not democracies that loudly celebrate banning activists the way the Trump administration has done here.

As I told the EU Parliament in April, the US is now in league with autocracies like Russia.

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 1d

Quick explainer I did last night for the other apps. Please watch and share- the Trump administration is trying to bury this arbitrary and cruel restriction of our colleagues’ rights during the holidays. Don’t let them.

Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 1d

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:

My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.

Huh? When did I say that?!

A passage from the book In Covid’s Wake, with a highlighted sentence reading: “Yoel Roth, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, states that "the FBI went beyond strategic information sharing and made direct moderation demands," including demands involving domestic speech.”

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 1d

trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful:
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 2d

The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.

Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.

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Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State

The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....

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Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Jennifer A. Richeson

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 1d

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 2d

Coverage in NYT (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 2d

Multiple typos there, pls forgive. In middle of Christmas wrapping and trying to deal with this latest shitstorm.

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Colm O’Cinneíde

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 2d

The State Department has just banned five Europeans from entering the U.S., falsely alleging they are involved in censorship of American citizens.

The only censorship here is coming from the Trump administration. My statement is below.

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The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose. These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states—in each case targeting American speakers and American companies. As such, I have determined that their entry, presence, or activities in the United States have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.

Based on these determinations, the Department has taken steps to impose visa restrictions on agents of the global censorship-industrial complex who, as a result, will be generally barred from entering the United States. Further, based on the foreign policy determination, the Department of Homeland Security can initiate removal proceedings against certain individuals pursuant to INA section 237(a)(4)(C), which renders such individuals deportable.

President Trump has been clear that his America First foreign policy rejects violations of American sovereignty. Extraterritorial overreach by foreign censors targeting American speech is no exception. The State Department stands ready and willing to expand today’s list if other foreign actors do not reverse course.

These actions are pursuant to Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which renders inadmissible any alien whose entry into the Unites States the Secretary of State determines “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.” Certain family members may also be covered by these restrictions. In addition, Section 237(a)(4)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act renders an alien deportable from the United States if the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds to believe the alien’s presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.

The premise of this action is a years-long conspiracy theory promulgated by the Trump Administration and its allies. There is no such thing as a “censorship industrial complex,” as I explained in a Congressional hearing this April (https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118072/witnesses/HHRG-119-FA19-Wstate-JankowiczN-20250401.pdf).

This lie originated with people who were professional internet trolls before they took up government positions. Now it’s government policy. As we’ve been tracking at The American Sunlight Project all year (https://americansunlight.substack.com/s/last-week-in-censorship), the Trump Administration has been taking a hatchet to the free expression rights of Americans and U.S. residents. Here, the Administration is barring entry to people who are using their own speech rights to advocate for an internet that reflects reality.

They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship—they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims! They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates who have stood up liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them because this community represents a formidable challenge to their power and their profit.

They cut off our access to data because they were worried that our findings would undermine them. They are using the legal system to keep us preoccupied and scared, to distract us from our work. They are trying to delegitimize us through alliances with unscrupulous media organizations. They have defunded and decried fact checkers because the facts aren’t on their side. They are threatening us because we are a threat to them.

And now, they’re barring brave advocates like Clare Medford and Imran Ahmed from the US for the same reasons.

It’s meant to be a warning, but it only re-ups the conviction of this community to stand up in the face of what is the biggest censorship regime in modern American history.

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Lisa W. Fazio, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 3 more Nina Jankowicz, Lisa W. Fazio, Stephan Lewandowsky, Sander van der Linden, David H. Kaye, Peter Jacobs

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 2d

Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State

www.state.gov

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 2d

“If the truth of the operation does not match the narrative of the ‘worst of the worst,’ it’s going to be killed," said a DHS official.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns."

A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.

"It's a war!"

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‘It’s a war’: Inside ICE’s media machine

Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos

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Reposted by Nina Jankowicz

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

‘It’s a war’: Inside ICE’s media machine

Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos

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Reposted by Nina Jankowicz

Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 3d

This is an extremely strange story about the acting head of CISA failing a poly to be “read into” compartmented intelligence (probably NSA, but pure conjecture on my part), and then essentially firing all the people within CISA who organized the poly.

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.

At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.

www.politico.com

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Steve Peers, Adrian Daub , and 5 more Nina Jankowicz, Steve Peers, Adrian Daub, Scott A. Imberman, Kate Starbird, Daxton R. Stewart, Manisha Sinha, David Darmofal

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4d

Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.

Ms. Weiss said in a statement late Sunday: “My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be. Holding stories that aren’t ready for whatever reason — that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices — happens every day in every newsroom. I look forward to airing this important piece when it’s ready.”

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Francesco Nicoli

Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 6d

U.S intelligence report.

So correct, so obvious, and still beyond the comprehension of the U.S. own government.

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Michael A. Clemens

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6d

this is illegal

Jonathan L. Fischer @jonfischer.bsky.social · 6d

NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building

The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.

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Jonathan L. Fischer @jonfischer.bsky.social · 6d

NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building

The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.

www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Nina Jankowicz, Jason Reifler , and 1 more Anna O. Law, Nina Jankowicz, Jason Reifler, Greg Linden

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6d

Facebook is testing a monthly $14.99 subscription, and telling users they need to subscribe if they want to post more than 2 links a month.

techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...

Facebook is testing a link-posting limit for professional accounts and pages | TechCrunch

Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 7d

My friends, we're 13 days away from the end of the year.

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