Nina Jankowicz

@ninajankowicz.com

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🙅🏻‍♀️ Author (2 books & The Wayfinder newsletter), disinformation expert, advocate for targets of online abuse.
☀️ CEO, @americansunlight.org
😆 Tucker Carlson once called me a “highly self confident young woman” and meant it as an insult .. more

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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

Political science 80%

Sociology 20%

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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

wiczipedia.substack.com

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 16h

As news of investigations into X break and a certain tech mogul has temper tantrums, remember that Musk lashing out at global internet regulators is nothing new.

open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...

Dispatch from Down Under: Keeping Australians Safe Online

Inside Australia’s pioneering efforts to hold tech companies accountable—and the campaign of conspiracies that followed.

open.substack.com

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Daniel Angus

QUT Digital Media Research Centre @qutdmrc.bsky.social · 1d

The 2026 DMRC Summer School is officially underway!

With 72 delegates in attendance, today's sessions explored a diverse range of topics with the highlight being a keynote address by Nina Jankowicz, internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization.

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 7d

Remember, whenever Trump does something like this:

This is government by and for the trolls.

He knows exactly what he's doing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump continues to lie and incite violence against Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I think she's a fraud ... she probably had herself sprayed, knowing her."

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Steve Peers, David Rothschild , and 9 more Nina Jankowicz, Steve Peers, David Rothschild, Trevon D. Logan, Smith, David R. Miller, Gerald Friedman, Michael D. McDonald, Simon Lester, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Timothy D. McBride, Dunlap

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump continues to lie and incite violence against Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I think she's a fraud ... she probably had herself sprayed, knowing her."

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Jonathan A. Foley

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 8d

One time when Michael Shellenberger wrote some lies about me one of his followers said that he’d like to throw acid on my face.

He’s clearly a very peace loving man. (He was given the chance to denounce the threat and did not.)

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

Hmm, how about the first endowed professor at the University of Austin, serving as CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech. Michael Shellenberger everyone:

Michael Shellenberger
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Most of the debate since yesterday has focused, understandably, on whether the ICE agent acted in what he perceived to be self-defense.
Whatever the case, it's clear that, by encouraging people to interfere in law enforcement operations, the Left is getting people killed.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

Hmm, how about the first endowed professor at the University of Austin, serving as CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship, and Free Speech. Michael Shellenberger everyone:

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 9d

In a world of endless raw footage and self-proclaimed experts, how can you tell the difference between legit investigators with OSINT chops and click farmers or disinformers?

I spoke to @eliothiggins.bsky.social & @capteurso.bsky.social for some tips:
www.thewayfinder.net/p/they-kille...

They Killed Alex Pretti, But Not the Truth

How ordinary people and open-source sleuths are fighting authoritarianism with evidence

www.thewayfinder.net

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Nandita Sharma, Eric Goldman , and 1 more Nina Jankowicz, Nandita Sharma, Eric Goldman, Virginia Sapiro

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10d

“You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple.” — FBI Dir. Kash Patel

A man carrying an assault weapon at the Michigan capitol in 2020 to protest COVID restrictions. Behind him are two people wrapped in Trump flags.

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10d

I am very tired of watching videos of federal officials killing people.

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz

Lynn Roth @lynnroth.com · 11d

Apparently a glitch. www.pcmag.com/news/gmail-g...

Gmail Glitch Appears to Break Email Filtering, Tabbed Inboxes

Marketing emails that should appear in the Promotions tab are flooding people's Primary inboxes. Google says it's 'actively working to resolve the issue.'

www.pcmag.com

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz

Jadeabliss - 🪷 “No one let go of anyone’s hand.”🪷🚫Newsom @jadeabliss.bsky.social · 11d

Yes. If you’ve disabled the AI / Gemini, it no longer does the routing it used to do without AI…

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 11d

Is anyone else suddenly getting all of their promotions and updates tabs on gmail routed to primary?!

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz

Sara Rouhi @rouhiroo.bsky.social · 12d

Amidst the madness (✊to our MN friends), it's easy to lose track of the impact of #censorship on #science #STM #R&D. @defendresearch.bsky.social kicks off 2026 convo series w/ experts @penamerica.bsky.social @ninajankowicz.com @jeremymberg.bsky.social. Sign up for Feb 12 - SHARE!

Webinar Series

Since releasing the "Declaration to Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship" in mid-February, the #DefendResearch team has engaged with scholars and experts around the world who view the cu...

www.defendresearch.org

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 12d

Something tells me they won't be issuing a correction or apology for their rampant lies 🙃

If you want to see the highlights from the rest of the hearing check them out here: americansunlight.substack.com/p/calling-bs...

Screenshot of House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans YouTube video with description:

Nina Jankowicz is crying over the State Department legally revoking visas of FOREIGN students sympathetic to Hamas terrorists.

But as Biden’s disinformation czar, she wanted to censor and suppress AMERICAN citizens from their right to free speech.

(Only 681 views tho ;))

In the case of Ms. Ozturk, a Tufts University postdoctoral student, officials wrote that there was no evidence she had “engaged in any antisemitic activity” or made “any public statements indicating support for a terrorist organization or antisemitism generally.” Nevertheless, they recommended that her visa be revoked based on “the totality of the circumstances presented.” A dossier compiled about her centered on an opinion piece she had written in The Tufts Daily, a student newspaper, calling for divestment from Israel.

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 12d

The Trump Administration tried to deport Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk & other foreign students for their speech.

🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

I called this out in a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last April, and the Republicans mocked me for it (see next post)

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12d

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 12d

"What if AI wasn't just hallucinating information, but thousands of AI chatbots were working together to give the guise of grassroots support where there was none? That's the future this paper imagines—Russian troll farms on steroids,” @ninajankowicz.com

www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...

AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy

Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.

www.wired.com

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Jan W. Mueller, Rosemary A. Joyce

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 14d

Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant Greenland in his Davos rant. But his press secretary is just blatantly lying about it.

Screenshot of a tweet from @PressSec dated 21 Jan 2026, reading as follows:

No he didn’t, Libby. His written remarks referred to Greenland as a “piece of ice” because that’s what it is.

You’re the only one mixing anything up here.

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 14d

Your donations—not foundations or wealthy individuals—made this possible.

Share it widely, and join our movement to shine a light on truth today ☀️

americansunlight.org/donate

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 14d

Key categories:

-Suppression of press freedom
-Retaliation vs critics/whistleblowers
-Crackdowns on research/academia
-Dismantling civil rights protections
-Policing language

And more. Each w/ sources + context. Explore trends across agencies & time.

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 14d

Why? Isolated incidents get forgotten. Taken together, you see a pattern: press suppression, whistleblower retaliation, academic crackdowns, civil rights erosion.

Visualizing this data shows how consistently this admin attacks free speech rights, despite claiming they're defenders of free speech.

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 14d

‼️ Today @americansunlight.org launches TrumpCensorship.com, a public dataset visualizing 200+ censorship actions by the Trump Admin against journalists, researchers & citizens since his 2nd term began.

From our weekly "Last Week in Censorship" monitoring → one interactive archive you can't ignore.

screen shot of trumpcensorship.com dashboard including timeline, map, and bar charts in red, white, and blue

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 15d

Thank you! Everyone talks about online and offline as if they're biforcated and same person isn't experiencing both environments. It's maddening

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 15d

Rep. Self has a history of very inept comparisons; he bungled an attempt to compare me to Goebbels in an April Congressional hearing last year

www.thebulwark.com/p/republican...

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 15d

I am aware. I am talking about the way the map would look

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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 15d

"How many more women and girls need to bear their scars to the world before someone with real power in the tech industry stands up for us?" — @ninajankowicz.com

I Never Want to Write About Deepfake Sexual Abuse Again

Why nobody’s solved this horrifying problem—and how you can help

www.thewayfinder.net

Reposted by Nina Jankowicz, Elizabeth Saunders, Steve Peers

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15d

Macron didn't concede anything in private messages to Trump, but the US Right is so high on delusional hubris that even basics of diplomatic back channels are useless as means to achieve stable outcomes.

How do you de-escalate with a US government that is obsessed with performative escalation?

Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 15d

Oh my god, it’s just because he likes how it looks, isn’t it?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Nina Jankowicz, Stephan Lewandowsky , and 3 more Anne Applebaum, Nina Jankowicz, Stephan Lewandowsky, Aoife O’Donoghue, Judith Beyer, Antonio Fatás

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump).
www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace

No mention of Gaza, which bolsters ToI's reporting that US also envisions panel helping resolve other conflicts worldwide; member countries must pay $1 billion for permanent spot

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