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Rapid-Response Frameworks for Mitigating Online DisinformationL
October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2026
Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Large: This project aimed to "advance our understanding of online disinformation and applies innovative approaches and collaboration infrastructure to address this challenge at a sophistication and pace on par with the dynamic and interdisciplinary nature of the challenge… through the development, implementation of rapid response frameworks, the research team rapidly identifies disinformation campaigns and communicates those findings uniquely to diverse stakeholders in government, industry, media, and the broader public, helping to build societal resilience to this kind of manipulation." This project had three integrated components:
1) “Developing models and theories of how disinformation is seeded, cultivated, and spread that take into account the sociotechnical nature of the problem;
2) Developing and applying innovative, rapid-analysis frameworks for responding to disinformation quickly; and
3) Implementing and evaluating the impact of multi-stakeholder collaborations to address disinformation in real-time during real-world events.” Conceptually, this research claimed to “leverage theories of rumoring from sociology and social psychology and the growing body of literature related to online manipulation to shed light on the participatory dynamics of disinformation campaigns,” and aimed to build “collaboration frameworks that others can use to create their own systems for rapid response.
Commentary:
This grant to Stanford University, which became a hub of the Censorship Industrial Complex, came from the NSF's "Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace" (SaTC) program, which was a major funder of information suppression and control research and development in academic institutions across the country.
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Rapid-Response Frameworks for Mitigating Online Disinformation

Stanford University
Social Media Lab; Department of Communications
National Science Foundation
648600
October 1, 2021
September 30, 2026
United States of America






