Project Grant SGE21024GR0121

This $246,669 Project Grant awarded on December 29, 2023 by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism (CFDA 19.701 - Global Counterterrorism Programs) supports the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), an international non-profit organization, to promote social cohesion in communities hosting Ukrainian refugees and counter anti-Ukraine/Ukrainian narratives both online and offline. ISD will leverage its expertise in countering extremism, hate, and polarization to deliver training,...

This 24-month, $1,249,621 project grant awarded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate under the Homeland Security, Research, Testing, Evaluation, and Demonstration of Technologies program (CFDA 97.108) is designed to provide in-depth analysis of the rapidly evolving domestic violent extremist threat landscape in the United States. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a woman-owned non-profit organization, will leverage novel computational social...

The National Science Foundation awarded The Washington University a $318,469 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct collaborative research on interpersonal pathways to radicalization and deradicalization from May 15, 2023 to April 30, 2025. The university will analyze social media data from seven platforms to examine how extremist leaders radicalize followers through informational and affective interpersonal communication. It will...

The Institute for Security and Technology received a $149,955.30 Project Grant award from the Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs to support non-governmental organizations combating disinformation and malign narratives spread via social and traditional media in Ukraine. Funded under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) to provide civil society and democracy building public diplomacy programs in Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia, the Institute will empower citizen...

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...

Youngstown State University was awarded a $449,897 project grant from the National Institute of Justice's Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560) to conduct research on violent extremist discourse and its influences. The 5-year project, starting January 1, 2024, will: 1) Quantify the presence, structure, and sentiment of violent and accelerationist ideas in social media posts; 2) Establish associations between these ideas and other thematic frames; 3) Assess...

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 $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...

TEXTY, in cooperation with Internews Ukraine, will implement the Grey Zone Project under this $108,004 Project Grant awarded by the Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs on September 27, 2021. The Grey Zone Project is a multi-component intervention aimed at studying and mapping disinformation in social media in Ukraine and developing new creative methods to respond to disinformation. This award is funded through the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (Assistance for Europe, Eurasia...

The Research Foundation For The State University of New York will provide services to strengthen ministerial-level crisis response and attribution to weapons of mass destruction assassinations during state disinformation attacks in Estonia under a $209,000 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. The award, made under the Global Threat Reduction program of the Department of State's Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction,...