News coverage from January 2025 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers.
- Venture Beat (January 7, 2025): “Meta retreats from fact-checking content: what it means for businesses”
A Venture Beat article about Meta’s announcement to stop working with third-party factchecking organizations, references a Bluesky post from CIP co-founder Kate Starbird.
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- National Public Radio (January 7, 2025): “Meta says it will end fact checking as Silicon Valley prepares for Trump”
Comments from CIP co-founder Kate Starbird were featured in a NPR report on Meta’s announcement that it will no longer work with third-party factchecking organizations. “In short, it is going to be more difficult for people to find information that they can trust online,” Starbird said.
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- Voice of America (January 7, 2025): “Meta to offer wider range of speech on platforms, CEO says”
A Bluesky post from CIP co-founder Kate Starbird was cited in a Voice of America report.
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- KIRO News Radio / My Northwest (January 7, 2025): “Meta replaces fact-checking with X-style community notes”
Bluesky posts from CIP co-founder Kate Starbird were featured in a MyNorthwest story about Meta announcing that it will replace factchecking with something like X’s Community Notes. CIP faculty member Amy X. Zhang, an Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering assistant professor, was also interviewed.
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- NBC News (January 8 2025): “How Zuckerberg’s fact-checking rollback could usher in a new, chaotic era for social media”
A Bluesky post from CIP co-founder Kate Starbird, along with additional emailed comments, was featured in a NBC News story about Meta announcing that it will cease working with third-party factchecking organizations.
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- Nature (January 10, 2025): “Does fact-checking work? What the science says”
In an interview with Nature, CIP co-founder Kate Starbird told Nature: “Measuring the direct effect of labels on user beliefs and actions is different from measuring the broader effects of having those fact-checks in the information ecosystem.”
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- KING5 TV (January 15, 2025): “Breaking down the impending TikTok ban”
CIP faculty member Katy Pearce, a Department of Communication associate professor, joined KING5’s “New Day Northwest” program to discuss the looming TikTok ban in the U.S. “We as Americans need to have better data privacy protections,” Pearce said. “We’re in a situation now, without paying attention, where we’ve turned our whole lives over to” social media companies.
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- GeekWire (January 15, 2025): “UW initiative ‘Society + Technology’ aims to foster broad collaboration at critical intersection”
CIP co-founder Ryan Calo was mentioned in GeekWire article on the launch of UW’s Society & Technology initiative.
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- The New York Times (January 16, 2025): “Trump is said to consider executive order to circumvent TikTok ban”
“You could have a policy not to enforce this ban,” CIP co-founder Ryan Calo, who was part of a group of professors who urged the Supreme Court to overturn the TikTok law, told The New York Times in an interview. “But I think that maybe conservative companies would just be like: ‘OK, you’re not going to enforce it. But it is on the books, and you could enforce at any time.’”
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- KIRO 7 TV (January 16, 2025): “Potential TikTok ban, explained”
CIP faculty member Katy Pearce, a UW Department of Communication associate professor, was interviewed by KIRO 7 TV for a segment about the TikTok ban.
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- FOX 13 Seattle (January 17, 2025): “What’s next after the US Supreme Court upholds TikTok Ban? An expert explains”
CIP co-founder Ryan Calo, a UW School of Law and Information School professor, was interviewed on “Good Day Seattle” about the law that banned TikTok in the United States.
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- KOMO-TV Seattle (January 18, 2025) “What happens when the TikTok ban goes into effect?”
CIP faculty member Katy Pearce, a UW Department of Communication associate professor, was interviewed by KOMO TV for a segment about the TikTok ban.
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- National Public Radio (January 20, 2025): “Trump signs executive order to pause TikTok ban, provide immunity to tech firms”
CIP co-founder Ryan Calo, a UW School of Law and Information School professor, was interviewed by National Public Radio about the efforts to postpone or block the law that has banned TikTok in the United States. “The minute Trump withdraws his support — if he does — that’s when TikTok goes dark,” Calo said. “And that’s why everyone is currying Donald Trump’s favor.”
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- BBC News (January 20, 2025): “Sadbait: Why algorithms and audiences can’t get enough of depressing content”
CIP graduate research assistant Nina Lutz was interviewed for a BBC News article looking at a certain type of social media content that share or foster feelings of sadness.
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- The Washington Post (January 21, 2025): “TikTok is banned but still alive. How?”
CIP co-founder Ryan Calo, a UW School of Law and Information School professor, was interviewed by The Washington Post about the Tik Tok ban. “It’s by far the weirdest internet law issue I’ve ever seen.”
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- Bloomberg News (January 22, 2025): The second Trump presidency, brought to you by YouTubers”
CIP research manager Danielle Lee Tomson provided feedback on the research methodology for a Bloomberg News analysis of YouTube videos featuring podcast interviews.
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- Le Monde (January 23, 2025): “Comment une poignée de comptes d’extrême droite influencent la vision qu Elon Musk a de l’Europe”
CIP postdoctoral scholar Mert Bayar was interviewed and quoted in Le Monde.
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- The Hill (January 31, 2025): “Democrats disseminate information: It’s time to unleash propaganda”
The CIP’s August 2023 rapid research analysis on the Lahaina, Maui wildfire was referenced in an opinion article in The Hill written by marketing executive Leonce Gaiter.
