Federal Awards for “Mis-, Dis-, or Malinformation” and other content moderation initiatives, 2010-2025

This database is a collection of over 850 awards issued by the U.S. federal government from 2010 to 2025 covering the topics of “mis-, dis-, or malinformation” and other forms of content moderation such as combating hate speech. Read more about this project and our methodology here.

An article further outlining this project can be found here. A collection of visualizations of this data is available here. A report by The Free Press also features our research.

This database is current as of April 15, 2025 and we seek to keep it up to date as much as possible. If you come across awards that should be listed here, or information that is incorrect, please let us know.

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Course Correct: Precision Guidance Against Misinformation (a.k.a. Chime In)
University of Wisconsin
School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Center for Communication and Civic Renewal (CCCR)
National Science Foundation
5000000
September 15, 2022
August 31, 2024
United States of America

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Understanding and Advancing the Generalization Capabilities of Fake Image Detectors
University of Wisconsin
Department of Computer Sciences
National Science Foundation
600000
August 15, 2024
July 31, 2027
United States of America

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Co-Designing for Trust: Reimagining Online Information Literacies with Underserved Communities
University of Washington
Center for an Informed Public
National Science Foundation
750000
October 1, 2021
April 30, 2023
United States of America

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Tracking and Unpacking Rumor Permutations to Understand Collective Sensemaking Online
University of Washington
Center for an Informed Public
National Science Foundation
510188
September 15, 2017
August 31, 2021
United States of America

Federal award

Co-Designing for Trust: Reimagining Online Information Literacies with Underserved Communities
University of Washington
Center for an Informed Public
National Science Foundation
5000000
October 1, 2022
April 25, 2025
United States of America

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Rapid-Response Frameworks for Mitigating Online Disinformation
University of Washington
Center for an Informed Public
National Science Foundation
1850801
October 1, 2021
September 30, 2026
United States of America

Federal award

Unraveling Online Disinformation Trajectories: Applying and Translating a Mixed-Method Approach to Identify, Understand and Communicate Information Provenance
University of Washington
Center for an Informed Public
National Science Foundation
550000
July 1, 2018
June 30, 2024
United States of America

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Towards End-to-End Computer-Assisted Fact-Checking
University of Texas at Arlington
Innovative Data Intelligence Research Laboratory - ClaimBuster
National Science Foundation
320780
September 1, 2017
August 31, 2022
United States of America

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Investigation of Misinformation Beliefs Expressed and Spread Online
University of Southern California
Department of Psychology
National Science Foundation
195213
September 1, 2021
August 31, 2022
United States of America

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A Novel Machine Learning Framework for Combating Misinformation in Real Life
University of Southern California
Department of Computer Science; Viterbi School of Engineering
National Science Foundation
500000
November 1, 2022
April 18, 2025
United States of America

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