The University of Washington Alumni Association, through its UW Impact program, with the Washington State University Alumni Association, recently co-presented a special virtual two-hour Mini MisinfoDay educational event, a series of short talks and innovative workshops co-organized by the UW Center for an Informed Public and WSU’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication through an ongoing statewide partnership.
The Mini MisinfoDay event, hosted April 25, featured a keynote presentation on misinformation and generative AI from CIP co-founder Jevin West, a UW Information School associate professor; a talk from CIP research scientist Mike Caulfield that explored tips and tricks for navigating online search results; a presentation from Northwest Public Broadcasting journalist Anna King, who discussed her investigative podcast Ghost Herd and the reporting processes journalists use to wrangle facts and pursue the truth; and a presentation from CIP postdoctoral scholar Rachel Moran-Prestridge and UW Information School doctoral candidate Sarah Nguyễn that shared key highlights from their research into how misinformation spread within and among Vietnamese diasporic communities in the United States.
The Mini MisinfoDay event also included activities where participants, using WhichFaceIsReal.com — co-developed by West and CIP faculty member Carl Bergstrom — to test their skills to identify deepfake images and differentiate them from images of real faces.
MisinfoDay is an annual media and information literacy educational event co-organized by the CIP and WSU Murrow and designed primarily for high school students and educators
In March, about 700 high school students, teachers and librarians from across Washington state participated in three in-person MisinfoDay 2023 workshops at events hosted at UW Seattle, WSU Pullman and WSU Vancouver.
