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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?

wiczipedia.substack.com/p/dont-call-...
Don't call it a comeback
Three years later, extremists are still obsessed with me
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 1d
TBH most of these accounts likely are not state run, just folks cashing in—literally—on MAGA rage

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 1d
These foreign-run accounts are following the best practices of disinfo:
-ID vulnerable audience
-amplify preexisting grievances, fissures, or hot-button issues
-monetize and watch the cash flow in.

We've seen this movie many times before. We shouldn't be shocked, but we should be vigilant.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 1d
My nonprofit @americansunlight.org looked at this behavior continuing basically unabated six years after FB introduced page transparency in 2018. As covered by @afp.com: www.straitstimes.com/world/united...

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Deceptive ‘bait-and-switch’ Facebook groups snare US voters: Study
It illustrates a sophisticated tactic to seed false election narratives in trusted online spaces. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 1d
Am I the only person thoroughly unsurprised that so many right-wing ragebait accounts are run from abroad?

The same thing happened on Facebook when they introduced page transparency.

The big question is whether it will change behavior. My prediction is it won't.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
Insurers AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots and to retreat from coverage of AI risk as multibillion-dollar claims mount

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Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 1d
Prioritizing the country’s most important issues, I see

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 2d
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 3d
This whole story is so nuts.

Joining the UK's Times Radio at 515 ET to discuss—along with continued Russian information operations

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Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches
Police say Nathan Gill received at least £30,000 while he was an MEP, from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset
www.theguardian.com

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 3d
It makes my blood boil that my country is once again using Russian talking points as operable facts, and privileging Russian interests and US profits over the lives and self determination of Ukrainians who have fought for and protected our freedom for the past 10+ years.

Shameful.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 3d
Trump’s “peace plan” to end Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine seems like it was written in crayon by someone with a high schooler’s understanding of the Kremlin, who thinks this is all a game of monopoly to be won.

Oh, wait. 🫥 1/

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Brian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 4d
Dmitriev and Witkoff out there rewriting the North Atlantic Treaty all by themselves.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 4d
He just tweeted it out
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.

Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Gabrielle Giffords • @GabbyGiffords • 3h X My husband @CaptMarkKelly is a 25-year Navy combat pilot veteran. He served our country with strength, courage, and integrity, dedicating his career to protecting us and upholding our constitution. Today, the President of the United States called him a traitor and demanded he be Show more Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkK...• 3h I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought l'd see a President call for my execution.... • 3.7K {7 2.3K 8.9K thl 461K 企 Janette Fenway @LeesLemmas • 43m @elonmusk Why is my feed suddenly flooded with lefty lawmakers spouting nonsense? 276 • 69 贝 Elon Musk * X @elonmusk X.com Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this. 3:49 PM • 11/20/25 • 6.3K Views

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.

Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Gabrielle Giffords • @GabbyGiffords • 3h X My husband @CaptMarkKelly is a 25-year Navy combat pilot veteran. He served our country with strength, courage, and integrity, dedicating his career to protecting us and upholding our constitution. Today, the President of the United States called him a traitor and demanded he be Show more Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkK...• 3h I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought l'd see a President call for my execution.... • 3.7K {7 2.3K 8.9K thl 461K 企 Janette Fenway @LeesLemmas • 43m @elonmusk Why is my feed suddenly flooded with lefty lawmakers spouting nonsense? 276 • 69 贝 Elon Musk * X @elonmusk X.com Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this. 3:49 PM • 11/20/25 • 6.3K Views

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Popehat of Serious Proportion @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d
/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.

You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill
Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Tr...
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5d
Between a random Portland barista saying he wants to hurt Charlie Kirk and the President of the United States calling for the execution of Democrats, both sides clearly have a violence problem
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5d
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
Trump: SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 5d
And it’s the left that’s “the party of murder”????
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I am regularly accused of treason by chodes on the internet.

Even so, having a president endorse and amplify a message like this is really, really frightening

www.politico.com/live-updates...
Trump calls for Democratic lawmakers to face trial for ‘seditious behavior’
“SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” he wrote on Truth Social.
www.politico.com

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 5d
I am regularly accused of treason by chodes on the internet.

Even so, having a president endorse and amplify a message like this is really, really frightening

www.politico.com/live-updates...
Trump calls for Democratic lawmakers to face trial for ‘seditious behavior’
“SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” he wrote on Truth Social.
www.politico.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5d
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 5d
And the convictions!

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 5d
loooooooooool

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 5d
Hang on, I seem to remember a campaign to villainize an effort to *create policy* for how to respond to “lies, smears, and AI deepfakes” at DHS. (I remember it because it endangers my family to this day.) Are they admitting that was a good thing now?

www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
DHS playing 'whack-a-mole' shooting down made-up ICE stories
The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up efforts to combat fake news, viral AI videos, and misinformation on ICE and Border Patrol.
www.washingtonexaminer.com

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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 5d
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.

Here it is:

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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 5d
At yesterday’s Foreign Affairs Committee evidence session, Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com called out the convergence between Russian rhetoric and Farage’s own 👇🧵

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 6d
While in Moldova I had the chance to talk to Hungary's Lakmusz, a counter-disinformation and fact-checking media outlet. Read our conversation below:

In English: lakmusz.hu/2025/11/19/t...

In Hungarian: lakmusz.hu/2025/11/19/a...
“Today we see the biggest restriction on freedom of expression in the United States since maybe the McCarthy era, maybe ever”
Looking back, 2020 was the golden age of the fight against disinformation, but today there is no longer even agreement that fake news is dangerous to democracy, says disinformation researcher Nina Jan...
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 7d
Tomorrow at 10:30 GMT/5:30 EST:

I’ll be giving evidence before the UK House of Commons’ Special Inquiry on “Disinformation Diplomacy,” and will be discussing the USA’s unilateral disarmament in the fight against falsehoods.

Tune in! committees.parliament.uk/event/25590/...

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 8d
MAGA lost their minds over this interview when my second book came out because I said:

“I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities all around the world”

I was right.

www.npr.org/2022/04/16/1...

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 8d
See second skeet

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 8d
They pulled a similar move in Australia when ordered X to remove videos of the violent stabbing of a priest that had a high likelihood of leading to follow on incidents.

This is the stuff that X is fighting for in the name of free speech. 🫠

Source on 🇨🇦 www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... 2/2
B.C. Attorney General ‘deeply disturbed’ by social media giant’s intimate image case
British Columbia’s Attorney General says she’s “deeply disturbed” that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the intern...
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