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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Jim Jordan leads GOP push to cripple 'fight against disinformation': report</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Matthew Chapman</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">June 19, 2023, </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Republican lawmakers are joining forces with far-right activists to attack universities and even private businesses that are investigating the spread of disinformation online — claiming that this amounts to an effort to silence conservatives on the internet, according to a report.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The New York Times posted a details of the actions they are taking on Monday.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"The effort has encumbered its targets with expansive requests for information and, in some cases, subpoenas — demanding notes, emails and other information related to social media companies and the government dating back to 2015. Complying has consumed time and resources and already affected the groups’ ability to do research and raise money, according to several people involved,</span>" reported Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"They and others warned that the campaign undermined the fight against disinformation in American society when the problem is, by most accounts, on the rise — and when another presidential election is around the corner. Many of those behind the Republican effort had also joined former President Donald J. Trump in falsely challenging the outcome of the 2020 presidential election."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The House Judiciary Committee, under Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), has been leading the charge. Meanwhile, a group founded by far-right former Trump adviser <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Stephen Miller</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> has filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court going after the same entities.</span></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Targets include </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Stanford, Clemson and New York Universities and the University of Washington</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">; the Atlantic Council, the German Marshall Fund and the National Conference on Citizenship, all nonpartisan, nongovernmental organizations in Washington; the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco; and Graphika, a company that researches disinformation online," said the report.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"In a related line of inquiry, the committee has also issued a subpoena to the <b>World Federation of Advertisers, a trade association, and the Global Alliance for Responsible Media it created.</b> The committee’s Republican leaders have accused the groups of violating antitrust laws by conspiring to cut off advertising revenue for content researchers and tech companies found to be harmful."</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The new push is part of a broader, years-long conspiracy theory among right-wing activists that the government and "big tech" companies are <b>colluding to silence conservative speech on the internet<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">There is no evidence of any such conspiracy; in fact, research shows conservative content actually spreads more easily on Facebook and Twitter.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">LNX</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/01/facebook-youtube-twitter-anti-conservative-claims-baseless-report-finds" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" pt="PT" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: black; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">There is no evidence</a><span pt="PT" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> of any such conspiracy; in fact, </span><a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/do-facebook-and-twitter-silence-conservatives-data-shows-they-actually-dominate/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" pt="PT" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: black; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; overflow-wrap: break-word; box-shadow: rgb(221, 175, 175) 0px -4px 0px inset;">research shows</a><span pt="PT" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> conservative content actually spreads more easily on Facebook and Twitter.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div>