White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mayorkas-dhs-disinformation-governance-board">Department of Homeland Security's creation of a "disinformation governance board"</a> at Thursday's briefing. Psaki said, "the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities." <blockquote>QUESTION: And then on this new report, that the Department of Homeland Security is setting up a disinformation governance board to tackle misinformation ahead of the midterms, Secretary Mayorkas said that part of its intention was to tackle misinformation in Hispanic communities especially. Can you give us an idea of what this board is going to be doing, what their authority would look like? JEN PSAKI: Sure, Jackie. I really haven't dug into this exactly. I mean, we of course support this effort, but let me see if I can get more specifics. We know that there has been a range of disinfo out there about a range of topics, I mean, including COVID, for example, and also elections and eligibility. But I will -- I will check and see if there's more specifics. QUESTION: There has been some criticism of the person who's been chosen to oversee this board. She had previously called the Hunter Biden laptop a Trump campaign product, seeming to discredit its validity or validity of reporting surrounding that. How can -- can you assuage concerns of people who are looking at this person who's been appointed to this position and wondering if she's going to be able to accurately judge misinformation now that a lot of that reporting has been proven to be factual in some ways? JEN PSAKI: Well, I don't have any comment on the laptop. But what I can tell you is that it sounds like the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities. I'm not sure who opposes that effort. And I don't know who this individual is, so I have no comment on it specifically. QUESTION: Her name is Nina Jankewitz [Ph]. She also just recently made some polarizing comments about the Twitter -- Elon Musk's Twitter purchase. It's just getting some pushback from critics, who are saying this person may not be the right choice for a board that is run by the Department of Homeland Security. Can you speak to that at all? JEN PSAKI: I don't have any information about this individual. I -- I can check on more information about the board. Go ahead.</blockquote>