[Hawxy]

> I don't know how well-organized or efficient they are

They're 50 employees with an annual budget of $14.4 million. The cost/benefit ratio here is very good.

[hilbert42]

For that trivial amount this has to be anti-tech anti-science thinking at work.

What's this administration trying do, return the US to the Third World or the Dark Ages? Madness.

[immibis]

Well, yes, pretty much. It's an observed pattern among authoritarian states that actual facts are frequently in opposition to the authority, therefore, actual facts must be eliminated.

It's a silver lining in disguise, really. Such countries tend to collapse relatively quickly because it turns out facts are important for running a country - look at the USSR's fake food supply. Relatively quickly could still be a decade, though.

[dathinab]

what I would like to say:

yes,

specifically some modern form of feudalism I guess

where the new nobles (as in large companies because in US companies are people) can mostly do whatever they want and the rest of the population is struggling enough to just "get by" to find time to change anything

but given that Trump put since deniers and anti-vaccers into power it's probably a much more "dump" reason

[Rebelgecko]

Why would they want to fund a group that calls them out for taking deadly shortcuts to save money?