Pro-free speech academics are calling on Congress to halt the “unethical” government-funded censorship experiments causing “harm” to Americans. 
Stanford Medical School professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and liber-net CEO and former Harvard Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society fellow Andrew Lowenthal wrote an opinion piece for the New York Post reaming misinformation research and government censorship efforts. In their piece, the pair noted that government-funded censorship research often flies under the radar. “Under the guise of combating misinformation, the US government funds universities, ostensibly to analyze social-media trends — but in truth, to help censor the Internet,” they wrote. The pair also called on Congress “to penalize universities” and defund their “misinformation” studies.
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