During the last two weeks, in response to Executive Order 14035, the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) has discontinued funding for analysis on range, fairness, and inclusion (DEI), in addition to help for researchers from marginalized backgrounds. Executive Order 14168 ordered the NSF (and different federal companies) to discontinue any analysis that centered on girls, girls in STEM, gender variation, and transsexual or transgender populations—and, oddly, transgenic mice.
Then, one other spherical of cancellations focused analysis on misinformation and disinformation, a topic (amongst others) that Republican Senator Ted Cruz views as advancing neo-Marxist perspectives and class warfare.
In the course of the earlier three years, I served as a program officer on the NSF Science of Science (SOS) program. We reviewed, really helpful, and awarded aggressive analysis grants on science communication, together with analysis on science communication to the general public, communication of public priorities to scientists, and citizen engagement and participation in science. Tasks my staff reviewed and funded on misinformation are among the many many others at NSF which have now been canceled (see the rising checklist here).