Project Grant SGA10024GR0045

This $750,000 National Science Foundation project grant under the Integrative Activities program aims to develop a disinformation training range to improve user awareness and resilience. Awarded October 1, 2021 for a one-year period, the grant supports The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York to lead the effort in partnership with the University of Illinois, Northeastern University, Clemson University, and Lehigh University. The partners will create an online platform...

The U.S. Department of State, through its Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040), awarded a $244,798 Cooperative Agreement to the International Center For Journalists Inc. (ICFJ) to conduct a 12-month program on "Media Smart: Spotting Truth in a Fake News World" for non-journalists in Africa. The program aims to empower African youth to develop storytelling skills that combat disinformation. As a non-profit organization specializing in media development and journalism training, ICFJ...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program seeks to improve the quality and credibility of media reporting, support media commercial viability, advance media freedom and freedom of expression, and counter misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation in Uganda. The $8,500,000 award to Internews Network, a non-profit organization specializing in media...

This $195,213 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund the University of Southern California's investigation of misinformation beliefs expressed and spread online from September 2021 through August 2022. A sub-award of $TBD will support related research efforts at the University of California, Los Angeles. The goal of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program is to support basic research that contributes to...

The Department of State Office of the Secretary of State awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement to Institute For War And Peace Reporting -US to increase the abilities of professional Mexican journalists to recognize and counter disinformation and produce evidence-based content from September 27, 2022 through September 30, 2023. This award falls under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) which supports informing and influencing foreign publics and expanding relationships between...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $200,000 to Duke University to conduct a cross-national study using generative artificial intelligence, social simulation models, and online experiments. The goal is to identify how social media algorithms can be redesigned to promote mutual understanding, increase trust, and reduce polarization. The research design involves training large language models...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Integrative Activities federal grant program (CFDA 47.083), provides $749,999 to The Ohio State University for work on actionable sensemaking tools to curate and authenticate crisis information. The University will gather work practice data and conduct qualitative analysis to inform the design of tool prototypes. Wright State University and the University of South Carolina receive subawards....

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $750,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities to support the NSF Convergence Accelerator Track F: Adapting and Scaling Existing Educational Programs to Combat Inauthenticity and Instill Trust in Information program. Under the award, MIT will deliver projects from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022 to enhance education programs aimed at building resilience against the spread of...

This federal Project Grant award of $120,000.00 from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (CFDA 19.022 - Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs Appropriation Overseas Grants) will support the organization Association Villageois 2.0 in Guinea to host a "TechCamp" event. The event aims to enhance the fact-checking skills of journalists, bloggers, and influencers to combat disinformation. The grant will enable a hybrid newsroom environment with...

This $322,812 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports research to advance the understanding of how people engage with news online and how their behaviors evolve over time. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing computational models to identify different types of news engagement behaviors and their progression stages, using advanced language and user modeling...