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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Read the article please.
It doesn’t confirm their biases, so they’ll just ignore it if they even bother
That would require him to be able to read, unfortunately...
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.
Unfortunately, paywalled.
I'm sure you still won't get it but those paywalls aren't hard to bypass - https://web.archive.org/web/20230923115829/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan/