Report: White House pressuring CISA to stop debunking election nonsense

A somewhat irritated-looking man in a suit listens from behind a microphone.

Enlarge / Christopher Krebs, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. (credit: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

As Donald Trump and his allies have touted unproven claims of election fraud over the last week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its leader, Chris Krebs, have swatted them down. CISA has set up a “Rumor Control” page that debunks common claims about the election.

Now Reuters is reporting that the agency has come under pressure from the White House to knock it off:

White House officials have asked for content to be edited or removed which pushed back against numerous false claims about the election, including that Democrats are behind a mass election fraud scheme. CISA officials have chosen not to delete accurate information.

Krebs expects the White House to fire him, according to three sources who talked to Reuters.

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Source: Ars Technica – Report: White House pressuring CISA to stop debunking election nonsense