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Further, the National Science Foundation (NSF), once a major financier of domestic AI censorship, has cut off grants related to misinformation, disinformation, and information literacy. They face an explicit ban on funding projects that mention “misinformation,” undermining the science-based justification for control technologies.
Even the Pentagon's initiatives, including the Psychological Warfare Research Center and the Manurva Initiative, which researched how to influence hearts and minds via social media, have been shut down. Meanwhile, other health agencies like NIH and HHS have seen reductions in censorship funding, reflecting a broader retreat of government-backed information manipulation.