by Chuck Ross at The Washington Free Beacon
The Biden administration awarded a six-figure grant to a liberal think tank to produce “inoculation” videos to fight extremism. The organization in question, the Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL), has extensive ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center and is led by a professor who serves on an advisory committee for the left-wing activist group.
The Department of Homeland Security awarded $749,828 to the group as part of its Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention program, according to government records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. PERIL will use the funds to improve “media literacy” to identify extremist ideas and form “inoculation tactics to create off-ramps from violent extremism.”
PERIL was featured in SPLC’s latest “Hate and Extremism” report, which classified parents’ rights organizations like Moms for Liberty as an extremist hate group and partners with the organization on other projects.
The grant comes as Homeland Security is under fire for a number of initiatives that critics say are used to censor and monitor conservatives. The agency launched an ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board that was led by a researcher who pushed false claims about Hunter Biden’s laptop and Trump-Russia collusion.
PERIL’s liberal leanings and its collaboration with the SPLC could raise…
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