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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

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 19h
A group of charlatans who tried to bring literal treason charges against me and other former USG officials got their dreams dashed on the rocks of the Murthy standard. The suit sought to get me barred from public service, but stopped short of the death penalty 🙃 www.courtlistener.com/docket/71264...
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Order on Motion to Dismiss AND Order on Motion to Dismiss AND Order on Motion to Dismiss AND Order on Motion to Dismiss AND Order on Motion to Dismiss – #182 in Cancer Step Outside the Box, LLC v. Dep...
Order GRANTING Motions to Dismiss 125 , 126 , 127 , 128 , 133 . Signed by Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin on September 23, 2026. (amolc3, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 9/23/2026)
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 27/09/2026
So many good soup recipes here! Sharing my mom’s pasta fagioli recipe because several folks asked. It’s nothing fancy (and probably not very authentic, we’re polish!) but it’s a weeknight staple for us in fall and winter
Pasta fagioli 

Dice 2 onions
Sautee with a drizzle of olive oil and a clove or two of garlic till browned
Add a can of crushed tomatoes and enough water to fill your pot 2-3 inches from the top 
Add 3 beef bouillon cubes, 1 tsp sugar, S&P to taste. Can also add some Italian seasoning if desired. 
Bring to a boil, add 2 C ditalini, cook till al dente 
Add 1 can drained cannellini beans, warm through 
Serve with Parmesan or Pecorino and enjoy 🥰
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 27/09/2026
Made our first soup of the season (pasta fagioli 🥰) and I have resolved to eat more soups during the cold months. Give me your best soup recipes OR favorite soup cookbooks please!! 🙏
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 19/09/2026
We’ll be covering Trump’s decision to ban MSNOW, CNN, and Politico from the White House—along with other Trump censorship news—in our upcoming “Last week in Censorship” newsletter from @americansunlight.org. Sign up to get it in your inbox: americansunlight.substack.com
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The American Sunlight Project | Substack
We're increasing the cost of lies that undermine democracy. Click to read The American Sunlight Project, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If President Trump “means to expel these news organizations from The White House press pool, his action is doubly unconstitutional because the press pool is a ‘public forum’ under the First Amendment, which means the president can’t exclude journalists from it on the basis of their viewpoints.”
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Trump Says He Has Banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico From White House (Gift Article)
The president cited reporting from the outlets that he deemed “fake news.” It was unclear how such a ban would be enforced or defended in court.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"IRS sent 10 agents and three analysts to national effort to police 'anti-capitalism' and 'extremism on migration, race, and gender.'" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...
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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 17/09/2026
🎶 just another day on the internet when you’ve been made into a supervillain based on lies 🎶 (PS: I am not Jewish. I am not religious at all, actually, but how absurd to need to clarify…)
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 15/09/2026
I wrote about Don Jr.'s incredibly tacky, Kremlin-adjacent wedding and what Moscow might get in exchange www.thewayfinder.net/p/most-openl...
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“Most Openly Corrupt Regime in American History” Gets Even More Corrupt (and Somehow, Tackier)
ProPublica reports that Don Jr.’s Bahamian wedding was financed by a Russian oligarch. What does Russia want in exchange?
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 15/09/2026
This is bad
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 14/09/2026
A Russian oligarch paid for Don Jr’s private island wedding and now the President is suddenly asking Zelensky to stop bombing Russian oil refineries 🤔 www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Call for Papers for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 23-25 Mar 2027, opens Tues. Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns. For more info on how to submit papers, see the Summit's LinkedIn page: lnkd.in/p/erwXfbXm
The Call for Papers for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 23-25 March 2027, opens on Tuesday.

Research on incentives or power infrastructures that support malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns.

The Summit is interested in compelling research that examines who deploys malign cognitive influence or disinformation campaigns, why they deploy them, what power structures they create or utilize to maximize their potential impact, how to measure actors’ perceived salience of incentives, how to measure the impact of supportive power infrastructures, and what policies or practice might intervene on incentives or power infrastructures.

The 2027 Cambridge Disinformation Summit is hosted by: the Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, The Psychometrics Centre - University of Cambridge, the University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, and Sage & Jester.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 11/09/2026
Ted Cruz did a standup on FOX after his speech and didn't condemn the man in the crowd's sentiment (nor, of course, did Jesse Watters ask him to). That's where we are in American politics right now: tacit approval of violence against folks on the other side.
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The American Sunlight Project @americansunlight.org · 10/09/2026
"We’re in a moment in which a truthful account of history is forbidden and everything is subject to an ideological test, including truth." Read more from Jonathan D. Katz, art historian and expert in museum censorship in conversation with ASP: americansunlight.substack.com/p/smithsonia...
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Smithsonian Failed Trump Administration’s Purity Tests
President Trump insists on limiting the nation’s history to a narrative of unadulterated triumph. Museum leaders have stood in the way.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10/09/2026
Today from @americansunlight.org: an interview with Jonathan D. Katz, expert on museum censorship, on the resignation of Lonnie Bunch II as secretary of the Smithsonian: americansunlight.substack.com/p/smithsonia...
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Smithsonian Failed Trump Administration’s Purity Tests
President Trump insists on limiting the nation’s history to a narrative of unadulterated triumph. Museum leaders have stood in the way.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 09/09/2026
10 years ago this week I moved to Kyiv on a Fulbright fellowship. Today, the Trump administration is trying to gut that program and other international exchanges, and is only interested in ending Russia's bloody war if it leads to personal finanical windfall. www.thewayfinder.net/p/witkoff-ku...
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What Witkoff and Kushner Didn’t Learn in Ukraine
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s Moscow-first Ukraine diplomacy shows what Trump’s peace push misses: the relationships and knowledge real peacemaking requires.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“With the possible exception of the cyclospora outbreak, I fear people haven’t really seen the consequences of the worst things that can result from a government run by and for the trolls.” @ninajankowicz.com in @atrupar.com’s PN open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation
“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2026
New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation “I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."
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Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation
“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 03/09/2026
Rogers’ distaste with the GEC’s gendered disinformation report that Anne describes was in part because it included a case study about the harassment I endured. That campaign targeted me with deepfake porn. Funny how Rogers focuses only on the “mean tweets” 🙄 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I Shouldn’t Have to Accept Being in Deepfake Porn
Because I was in the public eye, somebody synthesized explicit videos of me.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 02/09/2026
I hated writing this, if I'm being honest. I'm not a lawyer, but as a victim of deepfake sexual abuse I am incredibly frustrated by the ways our backward looking legal system continues to fail the most vulnerable when it comes to genAI www.thewayfinder.net/p/when-virtu...
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When “Virtual” Abuse Has Real Victims
Two cases reveal how generative AI has outgrown the legal framework governing child sexual abuse material
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself. I know because I was that veteran.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/08/2026
This is a joke but also MAGA still insists that @ninajankowicz.com was appointed by Biden to run a Ministry of Truth (though I also blame the admin for misleadingly naming it the "Disinformation Governance Board" which *sounded* like it could be that).
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 30/08/2026
This is an absolutely wild statement
As she admitted to Semafor earlier this year:
I was a prolific Gawker commenter, and the reason is that I got married in 2009, and I was worried that if I got married, that my wedding announcement and my husband and my family and myself were all going to be dissected by these malicious internet commenters. And I thought about this the way that perhaps a future public diplomacy under secretary would, which is I thought if I can just have four Gawker accounts and sock puppet the thread and say good things about myself, then I don't have to be afraid to get married because people, even if they bash me in public, I'll be able to speak back.
The fact that Sarah Rogers believes a Public Diplomacy Under Secretary would respond to online abuse by creating her own personal troll army says a lot about
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 30/08/2026
Normal people on a gorgeous late summer Saturday morning: ☀️ 🌼 😎 Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers: oh, I know, I’ll remind everyone of the gigantic public failure that led to calls for my resignation!!
Sarah Roger’s quote tweets her earlier nothingburger, writing “I don't personally go around accusing other women of having "manly chins," but it is farcical to see this treated as "disinformation" which the government should have any role whatsoever in suppressing.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Actual adult people who work in the mainstream press talk to this guy and take him seriously. He's a white supremacist, yes, but he's also just a premium sexless dork.
Richard Hanania: The point of a game like Grand Theft Auto is to identify with the character.

By making a female character, the new game will be promoting autogynephilia.

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, and if they make her bisexual then the game won’t necessarily be unhealthy.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh, Dolly Parton. What a loss of a bright light and a beloved human. Beyond from her beautiful music--what a talented composer--her commitment to literacy means so much. She came from poverty and family members who could not read--and she funded the free distribution of millions of chidren's books.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New reporting on the would-be State Department Files, which only showed (again) the Censorship Industrial Complex isn't real. “In the end, it’s not the greatest consolation on earth to find out that the people who wrecked 10 years of your work and your career are a bunch of galaxy-level dipshits.”
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The State Department promised proof of a censorship conspiracy. The plan backfired.
The State Department leaked documents to prove that officials were censoring conservative Americans. It outed a secret Pentagon employee instead.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 25/08/2026
On Friday night my dinner at the beach was interrupted because a high ranking State Department appointee started attacking me from her official USG account. She bungled it, and it went sideways for her—but it should still worry us open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...
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Government By and For the Trolls
A Trump Official’s Attempt to Smear Me Flopped—But It’s Still Alarming
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And here's @ninajankowicz.com: Live by the troll die by the troll. www.thewayfinder.net/p/government...
The second Trump administration is governed by and for the trolls. It has hired trolls—and fired qualified personnel at their recommendation. It has dismantled offices and agencies based on internet rumors. It has nurtured cozy relationships with trolls to launder its attempts to suppress dissent. And now, it’s running a disinformation and smear campaign against a few of its own citizens. Like so much in Trump 2.0: this is not normal.

But, as Rogers found out this weekend when her hand-picked troll publicly rejected her, relying on online conspiracy theorists to break news is a risky strategy. They may not always lead their mobs toward your political enemies—sometimes they turn on you.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 24/08/2026
A senior State Dept official used her official account to attack US citizens after her hand-picked conspiracy theorist rejected the “GEC Files” document dump as a nothingburger. 🍔 The rollout was a fiasco, but the tactic is still alarming. My latest: www.thewayfinder.net/p/government...
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Government By and For the Trolls
A Trump Official’s Attempt to Smear Me Flopped—But It’s Still Alarming
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 22/08/2026
Also, at least spell it right, Sarah.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 21/08/2026
Me and my giant manly chin are having a nice Friday night on vacation with my family but the Under Secretary of State is tweeting about me cause she has a very fulfilling night
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 20/08/2026
Our latest @americansunlight.org investigation: We identified a network of dozens of AI-generated accounts hawking supplements for... dogs 🐶 They've garnered 27M+ views—and a third of the accounts aren't labeled as AI generated at all. americansunlight.substack.com/p/ai-dog-dad...
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AI Dog Daddies Are Selling Supplements to Anxious Pet Owners
Dozens of AI-generated Instagram accounts generated over 27 million views. Meta only labeled a fraction.
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
That's a lot of gross AI earwax, you AI dog-owners need some nice AI cotton balls and a little gentle AI ear-cleaner solution for your AI dogs
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The allegations of plagiarism that Cofnas surfaced? Liverpool John Moores had already investigated & cleared him & is *still* not being included in most articles. Jason Stanley explains why again there was a basic failure of journalistic understanding & why people took Cofnas’s framing over LJM’s
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 20/08/2026
«[…] account originally signed up for Instagram in November 2014—long before the advent of accessible generative AI—and has had four usernames in its lifetime. Other accounts in the network have had as many as 10 usernames, suggesting that the accounts may have been purchased and repurposed […]»
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 20/08/2026
How'd we find this network? Cause I got fooled by it. A little behind the scenes, and some tips—unfortunately not foolproof—for spotting content like this: www.thewayfinder.net/p/i-was-fool...
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I Was Fooled by an AI Labrador Dad
How puppy content led me to an ecosystem of synthetic pet influencers marketing dog supplements.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 20/08/2026
Our latest @americansunlight.org investigation: We identified a network of dozens of AI-generated accounts hawking supplements for... dogs 🐶 They've garnered 27M+ views—and a third of the accounts aren't labeled as AI generated at all. americansunlight.substack.com/p/ai-dog-dad...
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AI Dog Daddies Are Selling Supplements to Anxious Pet Owners
Dozens of AI-generated Instagram accounts generated over 27 million views. Meta only labeled a fraction.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 18/08/2026
Jason Arday experienced a multi-point societal failure that turned his life upside down and ultimately led to his death. But no point of failure was so great as that of our common humanity. www.thewayfinder.net/p/when-compa...
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When Compassion Is Conditional
Jason Arday's public hounding and the failure of common humanity
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New from me: The Trump Regime keeps coming for SPLC. Their latest indictment is chock-full of salacious details designed to isolate Heidi Beirich from Civil Society. But since they couldn't even get her job title correct, I don't buy it. www.altrightdelete.news/p/revenge-of...
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Revenge of the White Supremacists
In solidarity with Heidi Beirich
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Personal Toll of the Contemporary Backlash Against Disinformation Research @ninajankowicz.com Journalism History, 2026 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Personal Toll of the Contemporary Backlash Against Disinformation Research
Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation researcher who became the target of disinformation and harassment after taking on a role in the Biden administration, recounts the personal toll the experience has ...
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 17/08/2026
Incidentally, I contributed an essay to a new issue of Journalism History that was just released. The essay discusses the *first* article this site published about me and the personal toll of attacks on disinformation researchers. You can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ujhi20/5...
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Journalism History
Media Literacy, Mis/Disinformation Research, and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis. Volume 52, Issue 3 of Journalism History
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 17/08/2026
Don't know what to say except (1) I am obviously alive, hi (2) I was never arrested (3) This is what passes for "parody" and "humor" on the right. This story has almost 20k views. This site has raised almost $419k on GiveSendGo.
Screenshot of article: Deep Stater Dies at GITMO

By Michael Baxter - August 16, 2026
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A Deep Stater who had been held in pretrial confinement at GITMO for over a year died from pnumonia complicatoins at Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay on August 7, Real Raw News has learned.

As reported in August 2025, White Hats nabbed lunatic leftist Nina Jankowicz, former administrator of disgraced pResident Biden’s ephemeral Disinformation Governance Board, outside a posh D.C. bar. Soon after, she was arraigned on charges of abetting the enemy, seditious conspiracy, and treason and sent to Camp Delta pending a military tribunal.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 14/08/2026
And that’s not including any of the commentary from the online peanut gallery
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 14/08/2026
This is just awful. It shows that someone can do everything the right wing demands—resign, admit to wrongdoing—and it still won’t be enough for them. Nor will Arday’s death, as I’m sure they’ll continue to harass his family and all associated with him. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Headline from WSJ, screenshotted, saying "Chinese Censorship Is Leaking Into Answers from American AI: ChatGPT, Claud and Gemini unwittingly respond like China's censored chatbots when asked some sensitive questions" Headline from the Washington Post, that says: "Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight: from writing speeches to sorting constituent mail, AI is spreading through Congress faster than the rules governing its use"
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 13/08/2026
Whooooops, I mean veterinarians 🐾
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 13/08/2026
Do I have any vets following me? Looking for someone to comment on a story 👀
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