If anyone is at all curious as to why researchers like myself and my colleagues are under attack, perhaps some of our papers might be of interest. Here's a recent one on participatory disinformation and the 2020 election: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231177943
Here's another paper — to be presented by lead student Stephen Prochaska in October at the CSCW conference — which explores how Trump supporters mobilized on top of participatory disinformation leading up to and following the 2020 election: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3579616
Mobilizing Manufactured Reality: How Participatory Disinformation Shaped Deep Stories to Catalyze Action during the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Claims of election fraud throughout the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and during the lead up to the January 6, 2021 insurrection attempt have drawn attention to the urgent need to better understand how people interpret and act on disinformation. In ...

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Dear @katestarbird

Thank you. Gift link for our friends who want also want to dive deeper via today's Washington Post - where you are also highlighted.
https://wapo.st/3ZvQNTF.

Lots of respect and appreciation from me, at least.

ESM

Misinformation research is buckling under GOP legal attacks

The escalating campaign — led by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and other Republicans — has cast a pall over programs that study not just political disinformation but also the quality of medical information online.

The Washington Post
@esmichelson Thank you! I can assure you that no one on our team out here in the other Washington is "buckling". ;)

@katestarbird

Good! 😆

Seriously, I know how exhausting it can be chasing down ignorance and corruption. It really does take a strong will and emotional stability to do the work. Just know I am here, as are others, for you.

Best wishes,
Eric