{"id":1834190,"date":"2023-02-03T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1834190"},"modified":"2023-02-03T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:09:13","slug":"harvard-pulls-plug-on-disinformation-research-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-pulls-plug-on-disinformation-research-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Pulls Plug on &#8220;Disinformation&#8221; Research Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fharvard-pulls-plug-on-disinformation-research-program%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=1834190&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<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Harvard-Abruptly-Shuts-Down-disinformation-research-project-led-by-Hunter-Biden-laptop-skeptic.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government has pulled the plug on its \u201cDisinformation\u201d The program was run by its director, who was skeptical about Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop story.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/02\/02\/2023\/harvard-joan-donovan-disinformation\" target=\"_blank\">Email<\/a> obtained by Semafor the Technology and Social Change Project, Harvard\u2019s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy announced it was being shut down, citing<br \/>\u201cbureaucratic reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kennedy School\u2019s standing policy is that all research projects must be led by a full faculty member. While there can be limited exceptions, those can\u2019t continue indefinitely without a faculty member as the principal project leader and academic head,\u201d The director wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard will parte ways with Dr. Joan Donovan. She was the leader of the project from its inception in 2019 to this day. \u201chelp newsroom leaders fight misinformation and media manipulation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats were enthralled by Donavan&#8217;s warnings about the dangers posed by so-called &#8220;Islamic&#8221; religions. \u2018misinformation.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Among its cased studies was an assessment of the media\u2019s coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/tag\/hunter-biden\/\">Hunter Biden<\/a> The laptop story was first published in the New York Post by the New York Post following the repair of a laptop at a Delaware shop.<\/p>\n<p>In the laptop, dozens of damning emails were discovered from Hunter\u2019s time at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Authenticity <\/h2>\n<p>Many left-wing academics and commentators claimed the story was Russian disinformation. Donavan believed this sentiment, which raised questions about its reliability.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported that Donavan\u2019s project concluded the media\u2019s reaction to the revelations offered \u201can instructive case study on the power of social media and news organizations to mitigate media manipulation campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even after the Times or other outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/01\/new-york-times-finally-admit-hunters-laptop-is-real-but-only-to-protect-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Asserted the authenticity<\/a> of Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and that it was not \u201cRussian disinformation,\u201d Donavan remained skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>Donavan even referred the Hunter Biden laptop tale as a \u201cstraw man\u201d In a tweet, April 20, 222.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and @cwarzel Looking at the content on the Hunter Biden Laptop, the most popular straw man question at #Disinfo2022,\u201d Along with a photo of Charlie Warzel, a staff reporter for The Atlantic, she wrote.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>Donavan questioned the Hunter Biden laptop story during the Harvard Kennedy School Podcast PolicyCast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sourcing of the laptop being dropped off in Delaware at a lonely repairman\u2019s shop that\u2019s just\u2026 If you can charge $85 for fixing a broken laptop, I want to know you,\u201d Donavan began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a broken laptop, right? So, the sourcing of it just stinks of tradecraft. It stinks of a drop. And many cyber-security professionals are waiting for an opportunity to forensically analyze the contents of this hard drive,\u201d She spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Donavan stated that Hunter stories were being repeated in conservative media, but not in other outlets. This was in response to Donavan&#8217;s prediction of an escalation in tactics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we see as researchers when they\u2019re trying to make a story happen time and time again, and it doesn\u2019t, then you start to see the intensification and adaptation of tactics,\u201d  Donavan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we pretty much expected more and different styles of attack, including a leak, but was really suspicious of it, is you\u2019ve got someone with millions of dollars,\u201d She added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can\u2019t afford Geek Squad at Best Buy to come to his house for the laptop that he\u2019s evidence of crimes on? I mean, it\u2019s really hard to believe,\u201d Donavan concluded. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/meta-ga-president-we-censored-hunter-biden-story-in-case-fact-checkers-wanted-to-review-it\/\">Meta GA President: Hunter Biden Story was Censored by Case Fact-Checkers Wanted for Review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government has pulled the plug on its \u201cDisinformation\u201d The program was run by its director, who was skeptical about Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop story. In Email obtained by Semafor the Technology and Social Change Project, Harvard\u2019s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy announced it was being shut down, citing\u201cbureaucratic reasons.\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1834193,"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":[547],"tags":[9899,6240,17528,6644,6757],"class_list":["post-1834190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-disinformation","tag-harvard","tag-plug","tag-program","tag-pulls"],"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\/1834190","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}