Dec 20, 2021 | News, Research, Updates
University of Washington Center for an Informed Public undergraduate research assistant Joseph S. Schafer, a fourth-year computer science student minoring in ethics, has been awarded a Mary Gates Research Scholarship that will help support his ongoing research with...
Dec 17, 2021 | News, Research, Updates
This fall, the Center for an Informed Public awarded Innovation Fund grants to four project proposals, funding that will help support collaborative, multi-disciplinary and timely work intended to advance the CIP’s mission to resist strategic misinformation, promote an...
Dec 14, 2021 | Recent Press
UW Jackson School for International Studies associate professor Scott Radnitz, a CIP faculty member, was recently featured in a Coda Story Q&A where he discussed his research on conspiracy theories and his book Revealing Schemes: the Politics of Conspiracy in...
Dec 8, 2021 | News, Research, Updates
To understand the dynamics and complexities of misinformation, it’s vital to understand three key distinctions — misinformation vs. disinformation, speech vs. action and mistaken belief vs. conviction — the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public’s...
Dec 7, 2021 | Education, News, Research
By Mike Caulfield UW CIP Research Scientist There’s a newly released study examining work I did with CIVIX Canada, a civics education organization that is scaling up an impressive curriculum based on SIFT (Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, and Trace...
