Late last month, the National Science Foundation, a U.S. federal agency that supports scientific research, terminated more than 400 grants that related to misinformation, disinformation and diversity, equity and inclusion. A proposed budget from the Trump administration would also cut the NSF budget in half. Kate Starbird is the co-founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. She joins us to share more about the broader impacts of these cuts.

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News Source : https://www.opb.org/article/2025/05/13/what-nsf-funding-cuts-could-mean-for-misinformation-research-at-uw-and-across-the-country/