Project Grant SRO10023GR0055

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...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $225,000 to Michigan State University (MSU) to develop a user-centered platform for digital content integrity. The project aims to protect the integrity of digital content and maintain public trust in the face of rapidly advancing generative artificial intelligence (AI) that can create and manipulate digital content, posing significant risks....

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 $150,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is supporting the development of a user-centered digital content forensics platform. The project aims to empower users in detecting and mitigating the impact of deepfakes by integrating multiple digital content forensic tools into a single, reliable, and user-friendly platform. The University of Mississippi is leading this 3-year collaborative...

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 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...

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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $269,376 to the University of Michigan from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The grant supports research to develop computational models and algorithms that promote truth discovery and robust social learning on social media platforms. Specifically, the university researchers...

This $299,959 EAGER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a project that tests theories of reinforcement to promote high-quality, balanced news and public affairs information on social media. The project team at the University of California, Davis is designing and evaluating two interventions that nudge social media algorithms to improve news and public affairs recommendations. One intervention uses...

The Department of State Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor awarded a $740,740 project grant to Ne Hallgassunk Nonprofit Kft. to strengthen conscious media consumption among Hungarian youth from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The funding supports the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor federal grant program (CFDA 19.345), which addresses human rights abuses and supports open political spaces globally. Specifically, Ne Hallgassunk Nonprofit Kft. will...