Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks

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

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Yes enacting a law that bans organizations from research is the same as those organization marking FALSE information and VIOLENCE AS FALLSE INFORMATION AND VIOLENCE./S you glue eating asshole, I'm not saying they should be in jail for believing different things. I'm saying they should be in jail for undermining democracy by making it illegal to discuss the issue without catering to fascists. Gtfoh

Up-vote from me just so more people can see this drivel.

Well I'm sure you won't be receiving any, seeing as you're defending making laws against medical research that Republicans don't like

Medical research? Disinformation research has nothing to do with medical research. It may have something to do with the response to medical research, or the response to say a laptop from a pawn shop, or maybe the response to accusations of collusion with the Russian government.

Read the article please.

It doesn’t confirm their biases, so they’ll just ignore it if they even bother

That's an interesting read, but after reading it I find nothing about a chilling effect on medical research, but I do find quite a bit about a chilling effect on how research is communicated to the public.

Those are completely different things.