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Nina Jankowicz
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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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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 2d
Ten percent of Zuckerbucks come from scams and ads for banned goods 🫠

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Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 3d
“They are threatening us because we are a threat to them.”

A little snippet of my rallying cry to a gathering of fact checkers and researchers from Eastern Partnership countries in Chisinau, Moldova 🇲🇩

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 5d
Sadly I think this is the case for quite a bit of abuse these days. In 2023 I got a lot of Facebook messages containing abuse from LITERAL GRANDFATHERS WITH TODDLERS IN THEIR PROFILE PICS. When confronted, they sometimes backed down. It was as if they didn’t realize I was actually going to read it
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What shocked me most about the death threats sent to teachers in Arizona in recent days was that they didn't come from extremists on fringe platforms, these were sent from seemingly regular people on Facebook.

Here's a sample of what they sent:

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An example of a death threat sent on Facebook to teachers in Cienega High School in Arizona after they were falsely accused of mocking Charlie Kirk by an spokesperson for Turning Point USA. This message reads in part: "Each on of these names and info can be placed on the dark web and allow nature to take its course." An example of a death threat sent on Facebook to teachers in Cienega High School in Arizona after they were falsely accused of mocking Charlie Kirk by an spokesperson for Turning Point USA. This message reads in part: "Literally driving to Tucson as we speak. You fucking wait." An example of a death threat sent on Facebook to teachers in Cienega High School in Arizona after they were falsely accused of mocking Charlie Kirk by an spokesperson for Turning Point USA. This message reads in part: "You teachers need to be school shooting victims" An example of a death threat sent on Facebook to teachers in Cienega High School in Arizona after they were falsely accused of mocking Charlie Kirk by an spokesperson for Turning Point USA. This message reads in part: "Those teachers are going to get what's coming for them."

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 5d
What shocked me most about the death threats sent to teachers in Arizona in recent days was that they didn't come from extremists on fringe platforms, these were sent from seemingly regular people on Facebook.

Here's a sample of what they sent:

www.wired.com/story/arizon...
An example of a death threat sent on Facebook to teachers in Cienega High School in Arizona after they were falsely accused of mocking Charlie Kirk by an spokesperson for Turning Point USA. This message reads in part: "Each on of these names and info can be placed on the dark web and allow nature to take its course." An example of a death threat sent on Facebook to teachers in Cienega High School in Arizona after they were falsely accused of mocking Charlie Kirk by an spokesperson for Turning Point USA. This message reads in part: "Literally driving to Tucson as we speak. You fucking wait." An example of a death threat sent on Facebook to teachers in Cienega High School in Arizona after they were falsely accused of mocking Charlie Kirk by an spokesperson for Turning Point USA. This message reads in part: "You teachers need to be school shooting victims" An example of a death threat sent on Facebook to teachers in Cienega High School in Arizona after they were falsely accused of mocking Charlie Kirk by an spokesperson for Turning Point USA. This message reads in part: "Those teachers are going to get what's coming for them."

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 5d
Very proud of my states today.

New Jersey, where I was born, with its first Democratic woman as governor,

And Virginia, where I’ve made my home as an adult, with its first woman governor in the inimitable @abigailspanberger.com 💙

Excited for what is to come.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 6d
Sadly this happens all the goddamn time. It is shockingly common.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 6d
If you are charging over a thousand bucks for passes to a conference that draws thousands of people you can pay speakers in more than “exposure”

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.com · 6d
Another day, hundreds more ads for #AI nudify apps across #Meta platforms...

Meta loves to talk about "new technology to detect ads for nudify apps" and "strict rules against non-consensual intimate imagery."

Funny though, because we at @americansunlight.org sure do find these ads often...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6d
Laura Loomer is now officially part of the Pentagon press corps.

We live in Idiocracy.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 6d
I am glad you are so enlightened but not everyone is, and they certainly weren’t in 2020

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 6d
There are orgs that do this! You need to sign up and do training in advance though

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 7d
TLDR If you're voting today, it's a good day to remind yourself of what your voting rights are. /end

www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Know Your Rights | Voting Rights | ACLU
Learn more about how to exercise your voting rights, resist voter intimidation efforts, and access disability-related accommodations and language assistance at the polls. For help at the polls, call t...
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 7d
DOJ typically does not exert that sort of influence, but given that their monitors are only being dispatched to high-profile states, and DOJ's announcement about the effort mentions "ballot security" (not, y'know, observing the implementation of the Voting Rights Act) I'm worried.
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What to know about Justice Department election monitors | CNN Politics
The Justice Department is dispatching federal monitors to polling locations in New Jersey and California, two Democratic states with crucial off-year elections on Tuesday.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 7d
Let's imagine there's a dispute during the check-in process. If the DOJ "pollwatcher" steps in to argue a certain voter should or should not be given access to the ballot, will a low level local election official feel empowered to push back against the weight of the federal government? 3/

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 7d
Now, don't get me wrong, DOJ pollwatchers are a far cry from the Proud Boys.

But in an environment in which career civil servants are being purged from the govt and the DOJ is being used as a political retribution force, it's not exactly comforting, either. 2/

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 7d
Happy Election Day! If you're voting in CA or NJ, you may see Trump-appointed DOJ "pollwatchers" in your precinct.

Trump has been obsessed with this for a while, including infamously calling on the Proud Boys to monitor polls in 2020.

Back then, I wrote about that moment for @theatlantic.com: 1/
Trump’s Version of Poll Watching Sounds Like Thuggery
The president’s call for his supporters to serve as self-appointed election observers reads as an invitation to voter harassment.
theatlantic.com

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 7d
Nothing says “we’re confident in our power” like cancelling Halloween

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/w...
Halloween Becomes Another Target of the Kremlin’s Culture Wars
www.nytimes.com

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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 7d
Most Americans say Trump is not committed to protecting the freedom of the press, protecting freedom of speech, free and fair elections or a fair criminal justice system abcnews.go.com/Politics/hal...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 10d
Excellent investigation of Russian misuse of international investigatory & judicial machinery.
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Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.”

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Russia’s Lawfare Playbook: How the Kremlin Weaponized Human Rights Courts to Launder Disinformation
When the Kremlin wants to legitimize a lie, it doesn’t just hold a press conference – it files a lawsuit.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10d
What struck me about Illia’s analysis is how familiar this tactic has become to the United States in such a short time; this sort of lawfare is being used by the MAGA movement to great success, particularly against disinformation researchers.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10d
Proud to publish this piece from my former student, who writes that Russia's lawfare in the European Court of Human Rights is "transforming [it] into an unwitting accomplice in one of the most sophisticated disinformation operations of the modern era.”

americansunlight.substack.com/p/russias-la...
Russia’s Lawfare Playbook: How the Kremlin Weaponized Human Rights Courts to Launder Disinformation
When the Kremlin wants to legitimize a lie, it doesn’t just hold a press conference – it files a lawsuit.
americansunlight.substack.com

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10d
That piece is so friggin hard, I was v glad I only had two lines in it!

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10d
And Audrey in Little Shop! (This was back in 2015 👵🏻)

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10d
Happy Halloween 🎃 👻

No costume this year, but here are some pictures from some spooky shows I was in circa 2018-19

1️⃣ Morticia Addams in “The Addams Family”
2️⃣ The Witch in “Into the Woods,” pre transformation
3️⃣ The Witch post transformation. Yes, we got a Bernadette Peters wig and it ROCKED
A selfie of Nina as morticia Addams with grandmama and a man in a producer headset in a dressing room mirror A woman (Nina) dressed as a witch in black robes, a black scraggly wig, prosthetic chin and nose, with monstrous hands. She is sitting in a theater and has a staff in her hand Nina in a black dress with sparkly gold tree branches on it and a black velvet cape, wearing a red curly Bernadette peters style wig

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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 11d
NEW from me + @makenakelly.bsky.social: 30 days into the shutdown, federal workers talked to us about the toll it has taken on them—unpaid bills, anxiety, and even waiting to be reimbursed for emergency cancer treatment.

@wired.com

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Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown
The US government shut down 30 days ago. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen federal workers who have struggled to pay bills, worked side gigs, and relied on free food programs to get by.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 11d
The only "censorship" that they believe in is the one they made up, not the one staring them in the face.

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”

/end

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 11d
When I brought up the Trump admin's censorship actions in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing in April, the Republicans—and their "alternative media" lap dogs who they called on to appear that day—had no comment then, either. 4/

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Calling BS on Republicans' Free Speech Hypocrisy
Everything's a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 11d
Just this week, Jim Jordan demanded documents from Stanford University over discussions they held on trust and safety, claiming those are tantamount to censorship.

Lap dog Michael Shellenberger followed w/ breathless reporting about Jordan's threats, which screams "independent journalist," no? 3/