Trump Cancels Grants to Study Online Misinformation

Sexual assault victims are being abandoned—just as Trump ordered

Resources to help victims and survivors of sexual assault are being denied to anyone who calls the National Sexual Assault Hotline, thanks to another bogus executive order signed by President Donald ...

NY Times, Back on Censorship Kick, Frets Over Trump's 'Misinformation Research' Cuts

New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers, who covers “misinformation and disinformation” and is a social media censorship supporter and First Amendment non-fan, is back with a story posted on Thursday, relaying the sad news that the Trump administration is against self-styled invariably leftist misinformation “experts” – i.e. social media censors: “Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation.” But who determines …

CUNY warns $17M in research grants at risk after Trump stop-work orders

The City University of New York could lose up to $17 million in federal research funding after the Trump administration issued dozens of stop-work orders, school officials said Thursday. The federal agencies’ directives touched 78 grants — from environmental research to studies about the impacts of diseases on minority groups — and 98 employees across CUNY’s campuses. “This is not just numbers and figures, which are important,” Chancellor Félix …

Trump has cut more than $1bn in research grants including online misinformation

The crackdown on research into misinformation aligns with the view adopted by many Trump allies that conservative Americans have been censored online

Trump Cancels Grants to Study Online Misinformation

“The Trump administration has sharply expanded its campaign against experts who track misinformation and other harmful content online, abruptly canceling scores of scientific research grants at universities across the country,” the New York Times reports.

An analysis by the Newsguard website described the spread of disinformation in the United States during the administration of President Donald Trump - it showed twenty of them that were very successful in the country. Some fake news was helped to spread by conservative influencers and was positive about the White House. Other disinformation, on the contrary, strongly criticized Trump. The success of similar fake news shows experts that it is inc…