“But then, after an election where in effect they exclusively censored the social media opposition of the current administration, suddenly the current administration started hooking them up with government grants,” the report said.

The foundation said because of those payments, it looked at every NSF grant in 2021 and 2022 relating to social media and “disinformation.”

The results, it reported, were “disturbing.”

“Since the start of 2021, NSF has issued 64 government grants on the science of ‘countering’ social media ‘mis/disinformation,’ totaling $31.8 million. It has also issued two government grants, totaling $7 million. That brings a total of NSF-funded scientific censorship research to $38.8 million since the start of the Biden administration.”

Among those getting paid were State University of New York which got four grants totaling more than $4 million, George Washington University with four grants totaling $4 million, the University of Wisconsin with three grants totaling about $3.8 million and the University of Washington with three grants totaling about $3.5 million.

It revealed a video from UW, from the school’s “disinfo lab” creator Kate Starbird:

Here’s another from Starbird:

An example, the report said, of the “brazen political targeting being done by the Biden administration with government funds under the pretext of funding ‘science,'” is a $200,000 grant to George Washington University, included, “how best to counter these populist [COVID] narratives and develop more effective communication channels. The research studies four areas of communication: government-led pandemic communication, media policy, media coverage, and public attitudes towards the media. The project makes an important contribution to research on populist communication and political polarization by bringing two fields of expertise — populist communication and public health — together.”

The foundation report charged, “So this is a government grant, funded by the NSF, which explicitly takes aim at ‘populist politicians,’ ‘populist communications,’ and targets the former ‘populist leaders’ of four countries — including the United States.”

The foundation noted that the NSF grant “explicitly says the goal of the funding is ‘to counter these populist narratives.’ That is, point blank, just the U.S. government using U.S. taxpayer funds to counter the social media opinions of half of the entire U.S. electorate.”