Project Grant SGE21018GR0121

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...

This $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) supports Doublethink Lab, a Taiwan-based nonprofit organization, to implement a comprehensive research project analyzing foreign information manipulation (FIM) in the Republic of Korea (ROK) and strengthen local capacity to counter these threats. The project aims to provide detailed insights into information manipulation tactics and help...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $200,000 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to support rapid collection of social media data in key election contexts through July 2023. The university will collect social media data from candidates' public accounts and related background characteristics for elections in...

Clemson University Division of Research was awarded a $953,203 project grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560). The grant will fund a 3-year research project to investigate, reduce, and prevent the spread of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM) around high-profile political events. The project aims to: (1) identify event characteristics that trigger online MDM campaigns, (2) map...

This federal Project Grant award of $500,000 from the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) supports research at the University of South Florida (USF) on social network websites, Kremlin propaganda, and internet usage patterns among Russians. The award has a performance period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The grant funds research at USF, a major public research university, to investigate the role...

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....

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program ($149,426) supports a comparative study of public opinion and elite rhetoric in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from May 2022 through April 2023. Led by researchers at Stony Brook University, the award allows for collection and analysis of survey and social media data to examine concepts like "rally around the flag" and...

This federal Project Grant award of $400,000.00 from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) is supporting research to investigate the language of parasocial influence and the emergence of extremism. The lead grantee is The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, partnering with Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on this 5-year research project. The key activities under this award include...

The Department of the Army Headquarters West Point Military Academy awarded a $300,000 cooperative agreement to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York to develop a data science methodology to detect military narratives in influence operations. The award is funded through Mar 1, 2022 to Feb 29, 2024 under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), which supports basic research related to improving Army programs and operations. As the prime awardee, the Research...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities, under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), provides $750,000 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the period October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The grant supports the development of machine learning, data mining, and network science models to aid fact-checkers in identifying and intervening on misinformation and disinformation. Subawards of $250,000 each will be provided to...