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@katestarbird: Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated.

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Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.

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We’ve been expecting this… for a long time. For nearly 3 years, our team (which conducts research on online rumors & disinformation) has faced online harassment, public records requests, lawsuits, & congressional (GOP) inquiries related to work we did reporting on falsehoods about the 2020 election.

 

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