Nina Jankowicz claimed Thursday that the Disinformation Board she will no longer be heading could have had a hand in preventing mass shootings such as the one in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, . She reasoned that internet disinformation is often what radicalizes people to violence, and pushed back against the idea that her job would have been to censor. 'I think another example that's important, that's also within the Department's portfolio, especially given the events of the past few weeks, is that disinformation plays a role in radicalizing people to violence,' Jankowicz said on NPR's podcast Thursday. 'You know, we're seeing continued mass shootings here in the United States, and in many of those cases, violent extremism is begotten by things people see on the Internet.'
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