Julia Steinberg
Free Press, Substack
Excerpt: The Stanford Internet Observatory—a research center tasked with rooting out “misinformation” on social media—is shutting its doors. Chances are if you’ve heard of the SIO it was in a scathing piece from Michael Shellenberger or Matt Taibbi, who have accused the center of being a key node in the censorship-industrial complex.
In actuality, SIO hired a load of interns to scan social media for posts deemed to be mis- and disinformation.
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