>The Biden administration has spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to study and police “misinformation,” according to a report released Friday. >OpenTheBooks, a spending watchdog, said the federal government has spent $267 million since 2021 on contracts and research grants that include the term “misinformation” in the proposals. During the Trump administration, $7 million was spent on grants involving misinformation. >That works out to a 44-fold increase in spending under President Biden in an area where even experts disagree over what constitutes misinformation and its cousins, disinformation and mal-information. >Much of the spending under Mr. Biden went toward studying information about the coronavirus and Americans’ response to the pandemic. Programs also included broader attempts to combat what the government deems misinformation. One U.S. university walked away with nearly $250,000 to construct misinformation “escape rooms” at libraries. . . Archive is down so no Archive.