Nina Jankowicz, former head of the Biden administration's Disinformation Governance Board, said she and her family received death threats.
Jankowicz's comments came Wednesday in an interview with MSNBC’S Chris Hayes.
She said the threats went something like this: "We're coming for you and your family. Your family should be sent to Russia to be killed."
Jankowicz said others tried to encourage her to commit suicide.
"All of those have been forwarded to the Department of Homeland Security's security service," she said.
Jankowicz said there were just "one or two days" in recent weeks that she "didn't report a violent threat."
"That's not something that is American," she said. "That is not how we should be acting when we have disagreements about policy in this country."
She maintained that her critics "need to learn how to be adults in the room."
"I don't have time for this childishness," she said. "I'm not going to let it silence me. I’m going to go forward and continue building awareness about this threat in the future.
"To say that I'm just a partisan actor is wildly out of context. And beyond that, it wasn't just these mischaracterizations of my work, but it was death threats against my family."
Jankowicz resigned after it was announced the board would be "paused" after much criticism surrounding her appointment.
"With the Board's work paused and its future uncertain ... I have decided to leave DHS to return to my work in the public sphere," Jankowicz said in a statement released through a spokesperson. "It is deeply disappointing that mischaracterizations of the Board became a distraction from the Department's vital work, and indeed, along with recent events globally and nationally, embodies why it is necessary."
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