To prohibit the obligation or expenditure of Federal funds for disinformation research grants, and for other purposes.

This bill prohibits federal funding for (1) disinformation research grants, (2) the National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace grant program, and (3) programs within the NSF Convergence Accelerator grant program’s Track F: Trust and Authenticity in Communications Systems.  

The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace grant program provides grants to support research and education on various topics in cybersecurity and privacy, including cryptography, hardware security, and information integrity. The Convergence Accelerator’s Track F projects focused on tools and techniques to prevent, mitigate, and adapt to the unanticipated negative effects of, and potential manipulation of, communications systems (e.g., misinformation).

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1233 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1233

    To prohibit the obligation or expenditure of Federal funds for 
        disinformation research grants, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 12, 2025

    Mr. Massie (for himself, Mr. Biggs of Arizona, Ms. Boebert, Mr. 
 Burlison, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Gosar, Ms. Greene of Georgia, Mr. Ogles, 
 Mr. Perry, Mr. Roy, and Mr. Weber of Texas) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
                               Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the obligation or expenditure of Federal funds for 
        disinformation research grants, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION.

    No Federal funds may be obligated or expended by any Federal 
department or agency for the following:
            (1) Disinformation research grants.
            (2) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace grants.
            (3) Programs within the National Science Foundation's Track 
        F: Trust and Authenticity in Communications Systems.
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