CBS Errs as It Airs Radical Professor on ‘Misinformation’
7th June 2025
The liberal media viscerally hate anything the Donald Trump administration is doing to defund the federal government pushing leftist ideology and squashing conservative counterpoints. One major field has been “misinformation research,” in which professors equate conservative arguments with falsehoods.
In the Joe Biden years, “misinformation” experts at major universities worked with the federal government and Big Tech platforms to prevent apparently under-educated Americans from accepting conservative arguments. The National Science Foundation issued hundreds of grants in this field, and now that they’re being canceled, the leftist media are freaking out.
On “CBS Mornings Plus” June 4, co-host Adriana Diaz sounded the alarm: “The fight against misinformation just got a lot more difficult as the U.S. government slashes funding for programs meant to fight it.”
They brought on as their expert Todd Wolfson, a Rutgers University professor and president of the American Association of University Professors. They presented him as some kind of objective expert, which he is not.