University of Washington professor and researcher Kate Starbird was featured on the program about “misinformation” proliferating on social media. Starbird spearheaded a project that Biden’s National Science Foundation (NSF) granted $2.25 million in 2021, and the researcher collaborated with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by serving on an advisory committee under its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which CBS did not mention.
“It’s interesting that the people that pushed voter fraud lies are some of the same people that are trying to discredit researchers that are trying to understand the problem,” she said, according to CBS.
The research that the NSF funded “will develop and evaluate ‘rapid response’ methods for studying and communicating about disinformation at a sophistication and pace on par with the dynamic and interdisciplinary nature of the challenge,” the professor said in a press release announcing the NSF grant.
Starbird contributed $750 to Biden’s 2020 campaign and $250 to the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee, according to Federal Election Commission data.
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One could plausibly make the case that the best way to understand the real political divide in the US is between those who want our political discourse to be policed, limited and controlled by the Kate Starbirds of the world, and those who don't.
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Misinformation is a big problem in today's world and must be addressed.
@WearyMongooseRepublican2yrs2Y
What needs to be understood is that Starbird is a principal investigator with Univ. of Washington's "Center for an Informed Public" which was (is?) part of the US Security State's censorship program during the Covid pandemic and the 2020 election. This "Center" was a key member of the "Election Integrity Partnership", a gov't funded cabal that worked to censor information to help elect Joe Biden. "60 Minutes" simply is a US Security State propaganda operation.
@JollyIcecreamPatriot2yrs2Y
I mean... look at her. Listen to her. We did not need to be told that, it was obvious.
All Democrats are fascists, as are all "disinformation experts."
@LobbyistMonkeyNo Labels2yrs2Y
"Misinformation expert" is a fake credential. It was invented after 2016 to disguise political censorship as a act of neutral science.
The idea that people like this can be floating arbiters of truth and falsity - and their decrees should be binding -- is a laughable fraud.
All of these Mainstream media outlets are Propagandists. These outlets accusations of misinformation, conspiracy and/or corruption indicate the very same things they themselves practice.
There is no such thing as Dis/Mis-information. It’s a made up narrative to cover for censorship. It’s all just simple “information”. You decide what you believe, what you don’t, and how you act on it. Simple, and apparently beyond the ability of some to grasp.
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