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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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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Towards End-to-End Computer-Assisted Fact-Checking
Duke University
Department of Computer Science
National Science Foundation
194503
September 1, 2017
August 31, 2021
United States of America

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ClaimBuster: Automated, Live Fact-Checking
University of Texas at Arlington
Innovative Data Intelligence Research Laboratory - ClaimBuster
National Science Foundation
50000
November 15, 2015
April 30, 2017
United States of America

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