Project Grant 2247867

Award Date 10/1/23
Completion Date 9/30/27
Dollars Obligated $505K
Federal Grant Program
47.070
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
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This $505,017 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop an open-source software suite to enable the rapid collection, management, and analysis of social media data. The goal is to help identify and mitigate information manipulation, such as misinformation and disinformation, on social media platforms. Key components of the project include:

  1. Developing a full-featured crawler construction toolkit to support large-scale social media data collection.

  2. Designing a data characterization and augmentation toolkit that integrates state-of-the-art techniques from information manipulation research.

  3. Creating a set of data access and sharing APIs, including a federation subsystem, to enable practitioners to build new technologies.

The award recipient is the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, which serves as the sponsored programs office for the SUNY system. No subawards are planned under this grant. The project will run from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027.

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