Jan 30, 2021 | News, Newsletter
This is a web version of the Center for an Informed Public’s News & Insights newsletter for January 2021, which was sent out on Jan. 29. Check out our newsletter archives. Not signed up to received the CIP’s newsletter? Register here. Why communities need to think...
Jan 29, 2021 | News, Recent Press
The Seattle Times wrote about a recently posted preprint paper from UW iSchool PhD student Prerna Juneja and CIP faculty member and iSchool assistant professor Tanu Mitra that found that “Amazon’s search algorithm boosts books promoting false claims about...
Jan 28, 2021 | News, Updates
Center for an Informed Public postdoctoral fellow Rachel Moran and University of Washington Information School PhD student Sarah Nguyễn recently received funding from the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) at The George Washington University in...
Jan 27, 2021 | News, Uncategorized
By Hsin-Hui Cheng When thinking about ways to address the impacts of misinformation in society, there’s often a focus on techno-solutionist remedies. And while those might seem capable of offering easy fixes, community-based approaches to misinformation also should be...
Jan 15, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Updates
In an op/ed for the Los Angeles Times, Ryan Calo, a University of Washington School of Law professor and Center for an Informed Public co-founder, and Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeastern University professor of law and computer science, write about “the several ways...
