Mar 30, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
By Michael Grass More than 1,000 middle and high school students, teachers and educators from across Washington state and the nation participated in MisinfoDay 2021, a series of virtual workshops on March 18 where facilitators explored strategies for spotting...
Mar 23, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
As part of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public’s ongoing Invited Speaker Series, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and professor of political communication at the University of...
Mar 11, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
Educators from across Washington state are leading the way in the development of misinformation awareness lessons and resources. MisinfoDay, an educational event that started at the University of Washington Information School in 2019, has expanded its reach in 2021...
Mar 2, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a nonpartisan coalition of researchers that identified, tracked and responded to voting-related mis- and disinformation during the 2020 U.S. elections, released its final report, “The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020...
Feb 16, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
As part of the Center for an Informed Public’s ongoing Invited Speaker Series, Deen Freelon, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media, is scheduled to speak about “Hashtag heroes vs. disinfo...
Feb 10, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, in partnership with Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, will present MisinfoDay 2021 on Thursday, March 18 and invites middle and high school teachers and librarians to...
