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		malshe 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake onl... There was tons of research happening in the space of online misinformation after Cambridge Analytica scandal. But NSF cancelled all the existing grants for misinformation research based on Trump's January 2025 EO. They will not fund anything related to this going forward: https://www.nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities#misinformation

rasz 18 days ago [–]

Fund? Forget the funding, they will not let people working in the field to enter US

deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/trump-admini...

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