It fits a larger, apparently organized campaign to suppress any counter-disinformation efforts, in government, academia, and private organizations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/30/biden-f...
The U.S. government has stopped warning some social networks about foreign disinformation campaigns ...
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University academics and disinformation research groups are also in limbo. Many are seeking affordable legal representation to defend themselves against mounting cases and reevaluating their communication with industry and the public.
“The trust and safety workers are gone. The relationships with external researchers is now gone,” said Anika Collier Navaroli, senior fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and a former senior Twitter policy official. “And now this third piece of the actual information from the government is gone. … So we’re basically unprotected.”
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Think how crazy that is - who is in favor of disinformation? How can universities - even Harvard - set precedents of not protecting open inquiry or their faculty, which will not stop here, and even indirectly support disinformation, the main threat to their mission of creating and disseminating knowledge. And as usual, there is no leadership; the Biden administration's answer to all problems is to avoid confrontation at all costs.