{"id":40601,"date":"2021-09-29T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T23:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40601"},"modified":"2021-09-29T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T00:08:29","slug":"rumor-control-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40601","title":{"rendered":"\u2018RUMOR CONTROL\u2019 REMAINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will use its &#8220;rumor control&#8221; website to counter disinformation and misinformation during future elections despite the site&#8217;s role in former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ojfmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntzqqwjk_lnjmjjgkgrmngkhjkkqw.html?a=&amp;b=42833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ojfmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntzqqwjk_lnjmjjgkgrmngkhjkkqw.html?a%3D%26b%3D42833&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633038896809000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHFyg1S3xatymFwXWCqgev6FdXWCQ\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0ousting several of the agency&#8217;s top officials in 2020.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">CISA Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/cdmqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjztdmmcpc_lnjmjjgkgrmngkhjkkqw.html?a=&amp;b=42833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/cdmqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjztdmmcpc_lnjmjjgkgrmngkhjkkqw.html?a%3D%26b%3D42833&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1633038896809000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFqJ6g72wXaHL_MpzAxu3NmXTm-6A\">Jen Easterly<\/a>\u00a0made the announcement Wednesday, noting her concern around misleading election claims and saying the site would be one of the efforts to combat disinformation and misinformation that the agency is pursuing ahead of next year&#8217;s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo rumor control, when I looked at this as a private citizen, I saw what CISA was doing, which is really making sure that the American people have the facts that they need,\u201d Easterly said during a keynote at the Aspen Institute\u2019s Cyber Summit. \u201cI worry a lot about misinformation and disinformation as a citizen, but also as a mom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40602,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601\/revisions\/40602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}