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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Fighting Misinformation about Vaccines Activity
Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees inc. Ukrainian Catholic University & Ukrainian Ministry of Health
USAID
10692453
July 1, 2018
June 30, 2024
Ukraine

Federal award

Building Georgia’s Resilience Against Disinformation
Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees
Department of State
500000
January 3, 2022
March 4, 2025
Georgia

Federal award

Uniting Kosovo-Serbian Media for a Joint Fight Against Disinformation
Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees
Department of State
388124
September 1, 2021
June 30, 2023
Kosovo

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Strengthening Lithuania’s Counter-Disinformation Capacity
Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees inc. Debunk EU
Department of State
300000
September 2, 2024
March 3, 2025
Lithuania

Federal award

CatPark: A Counter-Disinformation Game
Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees
Department of State
275000
September 30, 2021
September 29, 2022
Netherlands

Federal award

Building Georgia’s Resilience Against Disinformation
Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees
Department of State
250000
January 2, 2023
December 31, 2024
Georgia

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Media Campaign to Counter Disinformation on the Xinjiang Situation.
Miscellaneous Southeast Asian Awardees
Department of State
165625
April 30, 2022
September 15, 2025
Malaysia

Federal award

An Interactive Traveling Exhibit on Disinformation, Media Literacy and Deep Fake Technologies
Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees inc. Panang Science Cluster
Department of State
154564
September 29, 2022
October 30, 2024
Malaysia

Federal award

Training Czech Students to Debunk Propaganda and Disinformation
Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees
Department of State
150000
September 29, 2017
January 31, 2019
Czech Republic

Federal award

Boosting Bulgaria's Fact-Checking Community
Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees inc. Factcheck Bulgaria
Department of State
147226
September 29, 2022
December 31, 2023
Bulgaria

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