Biden Admin Awards Over $4 Million In Grants To Programs That Target “Misinformation”
The State Department has awarded the following five grants since September 1:
An $18,000 grant to the Albanian-based non-governmental organization (NGO) the Institute for Democracy, Media, and Culture* to ensure a “whole-of-society response to cyber incidents and misinformation.” The associated program began on September 1, 2023.
A $14,500 grant to Paraguay’s American Cultural Center [Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano] that will be used to implement workshops that “seek to combat misinformation and promote responsible digital citizenship.” The associated program began on September 1, 2023.
A $15,000 grant to the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Udayana University to “raise digital literacy among selected amcors communities, journalists, and social media influencers to combat misinformation, pre-2024 general election.” The associated program is due to start on October 1, 2023.
A $50,000 grant to New York University to complete the implementation of a speaker series that supports “countering misinformation.” The associated program is due to start on October 1, 2023.
A $50,000 grant to the non-profit Digital Rights Nepal*** “to create a sustainable network of youth to promote digital rights, safer internet use and a collective resilience towards misinformation and disinformation.” The associated program is due to start on October 2, 2023.
***Digital rights are the new Internet Freedom (think Arab Spring).
Skeptical Notes:
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Having been exiled to Albania in 1980, MEK used to create fake accounts to propagate against Iran’s government. The group used to leverage artificial intelligence to create deepfake images. By using deepfakes, generative adversarial networks (GAN) pose as investigative journalists and autonomous news outlets.
**About Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano
On February 13, 1942, a group of paraguayans, and the cultural attaché of the Embassy of the united States, met to found the Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano (CCPA).
Under the premise of “strengthen the bonds of friendship and to promote cultural relations between Paraguay and the united States” during his 79 years of work, the CCPA also has been to the country a powerful focus of promotion of democratic values such as personal freedom and of the press, harmonious coexistence and solidarity.
In the years of the military dictatorship (1954-1989), the CCPA became a space for the free expression of artists and intellectuals who wished to contribute their ideas about human rights and to seek the hoped-for freedom and democracy to the Paraguay.
The first English class is taught on 1 October 1942, the year of the foundation of the CCPA. Then set the Library Franklin D. Roosevelt, and enable the Theatre of the Americas and the Gallery Agustín Barrios, who remain concerning cultural Assumption.
The CCPA is governed today by an Executive Committee, composed of volunteers paraguayan and american in equal numbers.
In the year 2015 was put into operation in The CCPA school, a bilingual, not-for-profit that provides literacy in English and in Spanish, which will allow its graduates to be able to study, live and work both in american culture like in the paraguayan.
The Teacher Training Institute Paraguayan American, created by Resolution No. 25.999/16 of the Ministry of Education and Science, started its activities at the beginning of the year 2017, offered by the Faculty in the English Language, pre-service training (Road to Teaching) and training to teachers of the MEC.
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