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• Report: “New Database Tracks Canceled NSF Research Grants:

  26-04-2025 16:56 via infodocket.com
  From the University Daily Kansas (U. of Kansas):A crowdsourced database is helping researchers at the University of Kansas and other institutions in the U.S. make sense of contradictory information put out by news agencies and the National Science Foundation after the federal government began canceling N.S.F. research grants last week.
  The public database, compiled by Noam Ross, executive director of the nonprofit rOpenSci, and Scott Delaney, a researcher at Harvard University, was launched
  
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• Washington Post: “Wikipedia’s Nonprofit Status Questioned by D.C. U.S. Attorney”

  26-04-2025 02:14 via infodocket.com
  From The Washington Post:The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of “allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public.”
  In the letter dated April 24, Ed Martin, said he sought to determine whether the Wikimedia Foundation’s behavior is in violation of its Section 501(c)(3) status. Martin, who was appointed to the post by President
  
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