Lawmakers Propose $1M to Examine How Mis- And Disinformation Impacted Covid-19 Response

Route Fifty: Democrats in both chambers on Thursday introduced legislation that would grant $1 million for a National Science Foundation-led probe into how online disinformation and misinformation disrupted the public response to the novel coronavirus.

The study that would be mandated by the COVID-19 Disinformation Research and Reporting Act—introduced by Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., and four Democratic co-sponsors in the House and Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, and five Democratic co-sponsors in the Senate—would also seek to uncover the foreign and domestic sources behind coronavirus-related inaccurate information.

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