Richard Grenell, former Director of National Intelligence under then-President Donald Trump, tweeted April 30 that Americans should beware of the new Biden administration's "Ministry of Truth" freezing bank accounts in the name of protection against misinformation.

The White House has already made an attempt to collect bank account information from Americans last October, through a directive to the IRS.

Republican Senator John Thune of South Dakota said at the time: "So how long is it gonna take for them to say, 'Well you know we need a little bit more information because we really can't make much of this.' Then they're going to want individual transactions and who knows what."

Now, Biden's new Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) has come under criticism from the Wall Street Journal, who compared it to the secret police of the Russian communists, the KGB.