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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-GB">As part of our efforts to expand engagement with the academic community and to create more awareness of and engagement related
to content policy development and enforcement, Facebook has developed the “Content Policy Research Initiative” to support external research. The research topic areas of focus for these meetings and the call for proposals (found <a href="https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/content-policy-research-on-social-media-platforms-request-for-proposals/">here</a>)
are focused on:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="xxmsolistparagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-GB">Defining and moderating hateful content</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xxmsolistparagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-GB">Preventing offline harm from dangerous organizations/groups</span><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-GB">Details on the call for proposals:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in 9pt 0.0001pt 24pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Proposals should be between $50-100K (USD) and executed
over 12 months<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in 9pt 0.0001pt 24pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Proposals should be 2-3 pages are <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://12" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(29, 33, 41, 0.258824);">due
by March 15</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in 9pt 0.0001pt 24pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>It is open to applicants worldwide from academic and/or
research institutions that are eligible for research funding (this means it means many think tanks and some civil society groups may be eligible)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in 9pt 0.0001pt 24pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>The call is global and we are striving for a geographic and
topical diversity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in 9pt 0.0001pt 24pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Emerging Scholars are encouraged to apply<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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We are especially keen to receive proposals from across Africa, so I’m eager to help facilitate this. Do let me know if there are any questions.
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