[Air-L] Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled

[Joly MacFie]

https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/

The shutdown comes amid *a sustained and increasingly successful campaign
> among Republicans*
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/06/disinformation-researchers-congress-jim-jordan/?ref=platformer.news> to
> discredit research institutions and discourage academics from investigating
> political speech and influence campaigns.
> SIO and its researchers have been *sued three times*
> <https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2023/06/23/stanford-u-wash-faculty-fought-disinformation-got-sued?ref=platformer.news> by
> conservative groups alleging that its researchers colluded illegally with
> the federal government to censor speech, forcing Stanford to spend millions
> of dollars to defend its staff and students.
> In parallel, Republican House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and his
> Orwellian “*Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government*
> <https://judiciary.house.gov/subcommittees/committee-judiciary-118th-congress/select-subcommittee-weaponization-federal?ref=platformer.news>”
> have subpoenaed documents at Stanford and other universities, selectively
> leaked fragments of them to friendly conservative outlets, and
> misrepresented their contents in public statements.


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