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Disinformation researchers under investigation: what’s happening and why (www.nature.com)

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US researchers have spent years studying how conspiracy theories spread. Now they are accused of helping to suppress conservative opinions.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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.