{"id":1833088,"date":"2023-02-02T14:35:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T19:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833088"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:37:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T19:37:03","slug":"report-harvard-cans-schools-media-misinformation-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-harvard-cans-schools-media-misinformation-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Harvard Cans School&#8217;s Media &#8216;Misinformation&#8217; Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-harvard-cans-schools-media-misinformation-expert%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1833088&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Harvard University has fired the so-called misinformation expert from the school, who led research at the university into such issues as &#8220;media manipulation&#8221;  &#8220;adversarial media movements,&#8221; The <em>Harvard Crimson<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2023\/2\/2\/donovan-forced-leave-hks\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Harvard Kennedy School dean Douglas Elmendorf advised Joan Donovan that she had to leave the Ivy League school before the summer 2024. Joan Donovan is a well-known expert on disinformation around the coronavirus and white supremacy. <em>Crimson<\/em>. Donovan joined the school in 2019 and is now prohibited from fundraising. The school also imposed a hiring freeze on Donovan&#8217;s projects.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <em>Crimson<\/em>  &#8220;tensions&#8221; Elmendorf and the expert as the reason for firing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Donovan&#8217;s dismissal is a href=&#8221;https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/the-nurse-ratched-of-disinformation\/&#8221;>so-called misinformation experts<\/a> Professional fact-checkers face criticism for a>=&#8221;https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/fact-checkings-final-frontier\/&#8221;>protecting Democrats are protected from the negative press<\/a>The a href=&#8221; is frequently used.https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/fact-checkers-to-voters-dont-believe-your-lyin-eyes\/&#8221;>censorship Several damaging reports<\/a> Under the pretense that misinformation is being suppressed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Donovan also wrote a report that blaming Donald Trump was responsible for Jan. 6, 2021&#8217;s Capitol riot, and a book called <em>Meme Wars: The Untold History of the Online Battles That Threaten Democracy in America<\/em>. The work of Donovan has been featured in NPR, <em>Washington Post<\/em>?, <em>Atlantic<\/em>The, and <em>New York Times<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/faculty\/joan-donovan\">According<\/a> Check out her faculty profile.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Donovan, a frequent critic of Twitter under Elon Musk\u2019s ownership, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BostonJoan\/status\/1621144240368787463\">Tweet<\/a> After she leaves Harvard, she plans to move to Canada. &#8220;open up a lesbian bookstore that\u2019s got a coffee stand and uhaul rental inside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">James Smith, spokesperson for Harvard Kennedy School, said that the school continues to teach students about misinformation. <em>Crimson<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Harvard Kennedy School is committed to the teaching and study of misinformation and disinformation, and several faculty members are leading significant projects that address these topics,&#8221; Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University is forcing out the school&#8217;s so-called misinformation expert who has led the university&#8217;s research into issues such as &#8220;media manipulation&#8221; and &#8220;adversarial media movements,&#8221; the Harvard Crimson reported.<br \/>\nThe post Report: Harvard Cans School&#8217;s Media &#8216;Misinformation&#8217; Expert appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1833091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[7380,6971,4214,6240,4188,3819,3735],"class_list":["post-1833088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-misinformation","tag-cans","tag-expert","tag-harvard","tag-media","tag-report","tag-schools"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1833091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}