News Analysis
Brian Murphy, a former FBI agent who once led the intelligence wing of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), reflected last summer on the failures of the Disinformation Governance Board—the panel formed to actively police misinformation. The board, which was proposed in April 2022 after he left DHS, was quickly shelved by the Biden administration in a few short months in the face of criticism that it would be an Orwellian state-sponsored “Ministry of Truth.”