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By Clay Waters ~

Reporters Steven Lee Myers and Sheera Frenkel made the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times with “G.O.P. Strikes At Researchers Into Deception — A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics.”

It’s yet another Times attempt to dismiss concerns about the government squelching of free speech in the name of protecting citizens from “misinformation” and “disinformation” regarding COVID. This time the angle was sympathy for university-based researchers who now have to justify pressuring social media outlets, especially Twitter, into censor conservatives whose views were considered dangerous by so-called “public health experts” – even when those views were correct.

On Capitol Hill and in the courts, Republican lawmakers and activists are mounting a sweeping legal campaign against universities, think tanks and private companies that study the spread of disinformation…