With little in-depth publicity, Harvard University announced it plans to “force out” misinformation expert Joan Donovan from her role as research director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy. The departure will also spell the end of her stint as “Principal Investigator” of the Technology and Social Change (TaSC) project, which she has led since 2019 to “explore media manipulation as a means to control public conversation, derail democracy, and disrupt society.” However, as individuals increasingly join together to seek truth, one might argue that, like the FBI, the Biden administration, and others, Donovan and her truth-suppressing global cohorts are themselves manipulating media and society by repeatedly silencing the truth.
The TaSC project, like the other interconnected mind-control and censorship operations underway across the nation and globe, spawned into life as an extension of the well-documented shadow campaign inconspicuously constructed to influence media and, thus, society leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Of course, media manipulation has been around for ages, but with the frenzy around COVID, it is certainly becoming more discernible. For their part, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Matthew Baum and Donovan began studying disinformation “and the people who created it” following the 2016 election, when the term “fake news” became cemented in the political conversation. ...