Dan Gillmor on Nostr: The massively bad-faith Republican "investigations" -- persecutions to deter ...
The massively bad-faith Republican "investigations" -- persecutions to deter truth-telling -- into vital research on right-wing extremism have paid off for the extremists.
In a cowardly but understandable move, Stanford University is dismantling its Internet Observatory, which has been a focus of the Republican lies and attacks.
It's understandable in the way capitulation to Joe McCarthy was understandable in the 1050s before enough people grew spines to stop him.
https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/Published at
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