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.”
