The NSF Convergence Accelerator Program is a federally funded effort to solve societal problems through an interdisciplinary process by creating teams that operate, as their website says, "synergizing their work through innovative collaboration." No examples are given.
However, one of their efforts is DART: Deception Awareness and Resilience Training. Naturally the most suitable teams for this purpose would be created at prominent universities and such is the case here. The focus of this particular effort is the gullible senior and military veteran who falls for social media and internet misinformation. Since there can be controversy over the veracity of on-line information it must be assumed that whatever information the current federal administration releases or agrees with is genuine while deviant info is bogus misinformation.
At this point there seems to be simply training in misinformation recognition, not censorship of the product itself. A major difficulty might be measuring the success of the DART effort.
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