So billions and billions to Ukraine just isn’t quite enough eh? Now we have to give $5 million tax payer dollars for safe spaces for soy journalists who can’t handle criticism online.
The Biden administration has approved a $5.7 million grant that will be used to create a “trauma-informed” care program for journalists “experiencing online harassment,” the Daily Caller News Foundation reported Monday.
The grant will be awarded by the National Science Foundation to George Washington University’s Expert Voices Together program.
The NSF first provided the university with $749,222 for the project in 2021. The university will receive another $5 million in taxpayer dollars to fund the ongoing program through its projected end date in 2024.
According to the program’s description, it aims to address “links between two significant problems impacting trust in contemporary communication systems,” including the “broad and rapid spread of misinformation” and “abuse and harassment directed at members of expert communities.” The program defines “expert communities” as journalists, scientists, and public health officials.