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Harvard muzzled disinformation team after $500 mn Zuckerberg donation

A prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling then dismantling her research team as it launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history. The actions impacting Joan Donovan's work coincided with a USD500 million donation to Harvard by a foundation run by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. In a whistleblower disclosure made public Monday, Donovan seeks investigations into inappropriate influence" from Harvard's general counsel, the Massachusetts attorney general's office and the US Department of Education. The CEO of Whisteblower Aid, a legal nonprofit supporting Donovan, called the alleged behavior by Harvard's Kennedy School and its dean a shocking betrayal of academic integrity at the elite school. "Whether Harvard acted at the company's direction or took the initiative on their own to prote

Harvard muzzled disinformation team after $500 mn Zuckerberg donation
Updated On : 05 Dec 2023 | 7:45 AM IST

Mark Zuckerberg, his wife give $30 mn to Harvard, MIT for literacy

Chan called the five-year effort "a unique combination of cutting-edge education and neuroscience research

Mark Zuckerberg, his wife give $30 mn to Harvard, MIT for literacy
Updated On : 07 Mar 2018 | 9:10 PM IST