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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A Discourse-Aware, Community-Informed Toolkit to Predict Virality and Impact of Vaccine Misinformation Contents
University of Pittsburgh
Public Health Dynamics Laboratory (PHDL)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1000000
February 1, 2024
January 31, 2026
United States of America

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WiseDex: Misinformation Judgments with Public Legitimacy
University of Michigan
School of Information
National Science Foundation
750000
October 1, 2021
September 30, 2023
United States of America

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Transnational Disinformation Networks and Asian Diasporic Politics
University of Illinois
Institute of Communications Research
National Endowment for the Humanities
149999
January 1, 2024
December 31, 2025
United States of America

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An Algorithmic Observatory to Address Financial Misinformation and Disinformation in Minoritized Communities
University of California Irvine
Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion
National Science Foundation
750000
October 1, 2021
January 31, 2024
United States of America

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Dynamics and Mechanisms of Information Spread via Social Media
The City University of New York (CUNY)
Department of Physics
National Science Foundation
328068
August 15, 2022
July 31, 2025
United States of America

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Mitigating the Spread of Mis- and Disinformation About COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment Initiatives Among Hispanics
Texas Woman's University
Health Care Administration Program
Food and Drug Administration
500000
May 10, 2023
April 30, 2025
United States of America

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Online Dynamics of Misinformation
Syracuse University
School of Information Studies
National Science Foundation
495478
August 1, 2019
December 31, 2024
United States of America

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Countering Chinese Propaganda and Disinformation in Africa
Stanford University
China’s Global Sharp Power (CGSP) by Hoover Institution
U.S. Department of State
160048
January 1, 2021
December 31, 2021
United States of America

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Combating the Spread of Disinformation on Encrypted Messaging Apps
Stanford University
School of Engineering
National Science Foundation
89686
May 1, 2021
April 30, 2025
United States of America

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Accessible Machine Learning for Misinformation and Influence Operation Analysis
Stanford University
Department of Computer Science
U.S. Department of Defense
250000
May 1, 2022
October 31, 2023
United States of America

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