The federal government has granted $1.2 million in funding to 16 new research projects intended to “counter online disinformation and other online harms and threats,” some of which are described as “alt-right” or “credibility attacks on journalists.”
The 16 projects were selected following an annual call for proposals launched in July 2022 by the Digital Citizen Contribution Program (DCCP). The program is part of the Department of Canadian Heritage’s Digital Citizen Initiative (DCI), which “promotes civic, news, and digital media literacy through funding third-party educational activities and programming to help citizens become resilient against disinformation.”
