[wapo.st]

Academics, universities and government agencies are overhauling or ending research programs designed to counter the spread of online misinformation amid a legal campaign from conservative politicians and activists who accuse them of colluding with tech companies to censor right-wing views.

The escalating campaign — led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans in Congress and state government — has cast a pall over programs that study not just political falsehoods but also the quality of medical information online.

Facing litigation, Stanford University officials are discussing how they can continue tracking election-related misinformation through the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a prominent consortium that flagged social media conspiracies about voting in 2020 and 2022, several participants told The Washington Post. The coalition of disinformation researchers may shrink and also may stop communicating with X and Facebook about their findings.

The National Institutes of Health froze a $150 million program intended to advance the communication of medical information, citing regulatory and legal threats. Physicians told The Post that they had planned to use the grants to fund projects on noncontroversial topics such as nutritional guidelines and not just politically charged issues such as vaccinations that have been the focus of the conservative allegations.

NIH officials sent a memo in July to some employees, warning them not to flag misleading social media posts to tech companies and to limit their communication with the public to answering medical questions.

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The Gish Gallop on a monumental, coordinated, weaponized scale!

Gish gallop - a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate the ultra-right attempts to overwhelm their opponent by providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments.

See also Brandolini's law

Facts are "Woke."

Propaganda is truth.

Slavery is Freedom

But we never had slavery.

I saw Duane Gish give a lecture one time, and he came up with a new lie or half-truth approximately every two minutes, and sometimes more often.

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I saw Duane Gish give a lecture one time, and he came up with a new lie or half-truth approximately every two minutes, and sometimes more often.

He's got nothing on the previous President who managed this with just about every. single. sentence.

Some wealthy individuals who rely on functional capitalism for their wealth need to fund non-profit foundation that will be effectively unassailable by the GQP.

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Speaking of misinformation systems:

]The king is dead, long live the king