Trump's team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research

On 28 March, Briony Swire-Thompson began seeing reports online that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) might cancel grants for research on misinformation. At first, she didn't think she would be affected. Swire-Thompson, a psychologist at Northeastern University, studies misinformation--but not the political lies that get most of the attention. She's interested in false information about cancer, and why people fall for it. "There's a lot of people online trying to sell their snake oil," she says.