An escalating campaign, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans, has cast a pall over programs that study political disinformation and the quality of medical information online
An escalating campaign, led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans, has cast a pall over programs that study political disinformation and the quality of medical information online
This was the intent of the inquiries.
However, I think the title is a bit misleading. I wouldn’t say the research is “buckling”. It’s definitely been a headache, and sure there are some people who would rather not deal with the ever-increasing death threats, but that applies to many areas of research.
The question is how they’re going to try and stop funding research into this. The research around this is especially important from a national security perspective, because it’s become easier than ever to slide propaganda into social media and news media. If you’ve got enough resources, you can likely sway elections even easier than before.
Yeah, you can kind of play chess with a lot of GOP stratagems and it gets increasingly hard to see what moves are left for them. Keep the base stupid enough to win votes - sure, but they’re at the point of fanaticism over Trump that without him there is no GOP. No one is going to listen to the Jim Jordans or Matt Gaetz types because they are no one in this new world. So why continue keeping them dumb? They have to see how once you get all the monkeys riled up what will happen. They aren’t ruling the new America so why continue this bet? Death threats for not going along with the MAGA message? why do people with comfortable lives want to watch the world burn?