News coverage from September 2024 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers.
- Marketplace (September 10, 2024): “The threat posed by rumors of noncitizen voting”
CIP research manager Danielle Lee Tomson was interviewed about non-citizen voting rumors for a Marketplace segment.
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- NBC News (September 10, 2024): “What led to rumors Trump shared about Venezuelan gangs taking over a Colorado building?”
CIP postdoctoral scholar Mert Can Bayar was interviewed by NBC News about “newsbrokering” dynamics of influential social media accounts and where they’ve converged with non-citizen voting narratives in the U.S.
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- Axios Seattle (September 24, 2024): “How to spot election misinformation and stop its spread”
CIP senior research scientist Rachel Moran-Prestridge was interviewed by Axios Seattle and shared insights about how to avoid sharing election-related misinformation. “Anything that is trying to make it sound scandalous or exciting is probably not going to be true,” she said.
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- UW Information School (September 30, 2024): “Election integrity, misinformation center stage at Town Hall”
A UW Information School news feature reported on a September 11 event, “Stand With the Facts: Protecting Election Integrity, at Town Hall Seattle, co-organized by the CIP, KNKX Public Radio, and KUOW Public Radio. The event featured a discussion between the CIP’s new faculty director, Emma S. Spiro and UW Information School PhD candidate Sarah Nguyễn; and CIP co-founder Kate Starbird and NPR correspondent Shannon Bond.
