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"One of the world’s leading experts on misinformation says she was fired by
Harvard University for criticising Meta at a time that the school was being
pledged $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity.
Joan Donovan says her funding was cut off, she could not hire assistants and
she was made the target of a smear campaign by Harvard employees. In a legal
filing with the US education department and the Massachusetts attorney general
first published by the
Washington Post, she said her right to free speech had
been abrogated.
The controversial claims stem in part from Donovan’s publication of the
Facebook papers, a bombshell leak of 22,000 pages of Facebook’s internal
documents by the whistleblower Frances Haugen, who used to work at the company.
Donovan, believing them to be of huge public interest, began publishing them to
Harvard’s website for anyone to access.
“From that very day forward, I was treated differently by the university to the
point where I lost my job,” Donovan told the
Logic."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
