{"id":12493,"date":"2023-12-04T16:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/misinformation-expert-says-she-was-fired-by-harvard-under-meta-pressure\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T16:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:37:15","slug":"misinformation-expert-says-she-was-fired-by-harvard-under-meta-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/misinformation-expert-says-she-was-fired-by-harvard-under-meta-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Misinformation expert says she was fired by Harvard under Meta pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Donovan says she was let go for criticizing Meta when university was receiving $500m from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s charity<\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s leading experts on misinformation says she was fired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/harvard-university\">Harvard University<\/a> for criticising Meta at a time that the school was being pledged $500m from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s charity.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Donovan says her funding was cut off, she could not hire assistants and she was made the target of a smear campaign by Harvard employees. In <a href=\"https:\/\/whistlebloweraid.org\/joan-donovan-disclosure-harvard-betrayed-academic-freedom-and-the-public-interest-to-protect-meta\/\">a legal filing<\/a> with the US education department and the Massachusetts attorney general first published by the Washington Post, she said her right to free speech had been abrogated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/dec\/04\/facebook-harvard-joan-donovan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7d28ad0f06ea5f08a765c2b1fce2e2da9fc16013\/0_311_4695_2817\/master\/4695.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7418c699f89fef8d1f884ef4d9a2538f\" title=\"Misinformation expert says she was fired by Harvard under Meta pressure\" \/>Joan Donovan says she was let go for criticizing Meta when university was receiving $500m from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s charity<br \/>\nOne of the world\u2019s leading experts on misinformation says she was fired by Harvard University for criticising Meta at a time that the school was being pledged $500m from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s charity.<br \/>\nJoan Donovan says her funding was cut off, she could not hire assistants and she was made the target of a smear campaign by Harvard employees. In a legal filing with the US education department and the Massachusetts attorney general first published by the Washington Post, she said her right to free speech had been abrogated. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Donovan says she was let go for criticizing Meta when university was receiving $500m from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s charity One of the world\u2019s leading experts on misinformation says she was fired by Harvard University for criticising Meta at a time that the school was being pledged $500m from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s charity. Joan Donovan says her &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/misinformation-expert-says-she-was-fired-by-harvard-under-meta-pressure\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misinformation expert says she was fired by Harvard under Meta pressure<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}