<div dir="ltr"><div>I've been a collaborator with Renee DiResta, who was the Stanford Internet Observatories former research manager and has written a lot about misinformation and online policies. This recent piece she wrote in The Atlantic gets into it: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/cia-renee-censorship-conspiracy-twitter/678688/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/cia-renee-censorship-conspiracy-twitter/678688/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also, Kate Starbird, a prof. at UWash's I-School, has, for a while now, discussed on X and Bluesky her and her UWash colleagues' experiences with this Commission also chasing after them, bogging them down with FOIA requests, and spinning their research work. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Looking at the lawsuit of (Surgeon General) Murthy v. Iowa that kicked mud on SIO, while it is unclear how the federal government will fare on this one, SIO is not named as a defendant (having only provided technical insight to the government like university researchers do, but got cited a lot in the government's work). Notably, there are some really fringe partisan organizations that submitted Amicus briefs in support of the plaintiff--for example, The Claremont Institute and America's Frontline Doctors (a quack medical org. which was/is led by Simone Gold, a misinfo-peddling doctor who was recently convicted for her January 6 activities at the Capital). When the The Manhattan Institute is among the more credible orgs on a list, that's not a good sign. =) <br></div><div><br></div><div>Rich<br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>_________________________________________________<br></div>Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH<br></div>Professor of Public Policy</div><div>Faculty Director, Science to Policy (S2P)<br></div>University of California, Riverside<br></div><div>School of Public Policy<br></div><div>900 University Avenue<br></div><div>Riverside, California 92521 USA<br></div><div><br></div><div>Office: 4157 Interdisciplinary South<br></div><div>Phone: 951-827-5405<br></div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:richard.carpiano@ucr.edu" target="_blank">richard.carpiano@ucr.edu</a><br>Website: <a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rcarpian" target="_blank">https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rcarpian</a><br></div>X (Twitter): <a href="http://www.twitter.com/RMCarpiano" target="_blank">https://www.twitter.com/RMCarpiano</a></div><div>Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/rmcarpiano.bsky.social" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/rmcarpiano.bsky.social</a></div><div>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-m-carpiano-36261b30b" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-m-carpiano-36261b30b</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM Michail Faloutsos via LOGOS <<a href="mailto:logos@lists.ucr.edu">logos@lists.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div style="font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Hello,<br><br>Log@rithms seems great.<br>The
shutting down of the Stanford Int Observatory sounds horrific!<br>Though
you never know until you hear all the facts, government suing a
research center<br>sounds Orwellian.<br><br>Michalis<br><br><span>Emiliano
De Cristofaro via LOGOS wrote on 6/14/24 6:18 AM:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">As long as we're not logorrheic <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>--<div>Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro</div><div>Computer
Science and Engineering</div><div>University of California, Riverside</div><div><a href="https://emilianodc.com" target="_blank">https://emilianodc.com</a></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 13,
2024 at 7:11 PM Kevin M Esterling via LOGOS <<a href="mailto:logos@lists.ucr.edu" target="_blank">logos@lists.ucr.edu</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 13, 2024 6:16 PM<br>
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<div>Actually no not at all - everyone has been writing logarithms and
it doesn’t make as much sense as logorithms so I’m trying to correct
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<div>Not sure if you saw this terrible news, but it is relevant to our
work/initiative... If you aren't aware of them, the Stanford Internet
Observatory team produced some terrific work on online misinformation
that bridged the academic, public, and policy
spheres. I understand misinformation researchers at the University of
Washington were also caught up in this harassing, McCarthy-esque
investigation.</div>
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