News coverage from January 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers.
- KUOW Public Radio (Jan. 9): “Could the U.S. ban TikTok for everyone?”
CIP co-founder Ryan Calo was interviewed on KUOW Public Radio’s Soundside program about why TikTok has been attracting so much scrutiny by elected officials in the U.S.
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- National Public Radio (Jan. 11): “3 reasons why Seattle schools are suing Big Tech over a youth mental health crisis”
CIP co-founder Ryan Calo, a UW School of Law and Information School professor, was interviewed by Mary Yang for a NPR story about the Seattle Public Schools’ lawsuit against Google, Meta, TikTok and Snap.
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- El Pais (Jan. 10): “‘Small dick energy’: Why we shouldn’t continue to mock penis size”
Calling Bullshit and CIP faculty member Carl T. Bergstrom, a UW Department of Biology professor, are referenced in an El Pais feature about myths about masculinity and penis size.
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- KUOW Public Radio (Jan. 12): “Seattle, Kent schools’ lawsuits against social media giants have a ‘scientific basis,’ expert says”
Ryan Calo was interviewed by KUOW Public Radio about the lawsuit the Seattle and Kent public schools have filed against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap.
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- KUOW Public Radio (Jan. 13): “Hot take on Seattle schools social media lawsuit: ‘Moral panic’”
In a KUOW Public Radio interview that aired Jan. 13 about the Seattle Public Schools’ recently filed lawsuit against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap, CIP faculty member Katy E. Pearce, an associate professor in the UW Department of Communication, said: “When we’re talking about kids, this amps up 1,000 degrees. And when we’re thinking about how these things can affect kids, people tend to fall into what we call moral panics.”
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- Tech Policy Press (Jan. 15): “Examining the impact of Internet Research Agency tweets in the 2016 U.S. election”
CIP co-founder Kate Starbird’s research on 2016 disinformation was cited by NYU CSMaP co-director Josh Tucker in a Tech Policy Press Sunday Show podcast.
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- The Examiner News (Jan. 17): “My visit to The Trust Project and how to fix Facebook”
Kate Starbird made a presentation at the Trust Project Board Meeting, “How Propaganda and Disinformation Take Root.” Highlights from Starbird’s presentation were featured in the Examiner News family of newspapers in New York state.
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- Movie Web (Jan. 20): “Entourage cameos that have not aged well”
A MovieWeb blog post about the HBO series “Entourage” references CIP research.
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- Forbes (Jan. 24): “Taser-drone developer Axon faces newly published criticism from ethics advisors”
CIP co-founder Ryan Calo was interviewed and quoted by Forbes article about Axon taser drones.
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- The Atlantic (Jan. 25): “We may never know how Russian Twitter trolls shaped the 2016 election”
Kate Starbird was interviewed by The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel.
