Disinformation researchers under investigation: what’s happening and why
Disinformation researchers under investigation: what’s happening and why
US researchers have spent years studying how conspiracy theories spread. Now they are accused of helping to suppress conservative opinions.
US researchers have spent years studying how conspiracy theories spread. Now they are accused of helping to suppress conservative opinions.
This is apparently being led by Gym Jordan, the man who suppressed information about a close, personal pedophile.
Anything that risks putting the conspiracy theory-wielding political hucksters under the microscope or into the spotlight is being labeled as a conspiracy itself. It's always projection with this crowd.
So, like... another conspiracy theory?
Technically, suppressing wild conspiracy theories is suppressing conservative speech these days. Which is rather sad. Not that conservative speech was based in reality before this, but now it's just completely unhinged, anti-science clap-trap.
So is "science" on lemmy.world going to have politically charged social science "studies" like the Reddit version? Can't we do better here?
https://www.viralityproject.org/
You're allowed to have your own opinion, but here is the link to the actual research, which I thought was pretty interesting!
One of the points was about how Covid-19 conspiracy theories were just rehashed talking points of old. I won't spoil the rest
Without looking I'm going to guess it's rehashed antisemitism. Let's see if I'm right.
If you have any interest at all in science, you should have an interest in the accurate dissemination of science, and the ability of scientists to speak freely about their results without fear of political persecution.
Honestly this is a pretty fun read