Government outsourcing online censorship to academics

According to a new report from the House Judiciary Committee, the federal government outsourced online censorship to a team of academics, specifically Stanford University. The State Department and Homeland Security enlisted Stanford's Election Integrity Partnership to monitor and censor Americans' online speech. This program involved federal agencies submitting misinformation reports to Stanford's Internet Observatory, which then analyzed the flagged content and created reports with recommendations for social media platforms on how to censor posts. The investigation found that the censorship primarily targeted conservatives and Republicans, while false information from Democrats and liberals often went unreported.