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...
Jan 6, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread without apparent consequence for the people who hold them? It might seem that there’s an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if...
Nov 13, 2020 | Events, News
On Tuesday, Nov. 17, as part of an ongoing lecture series from the University of Washington Information School and the Center for an Informed Public, UW School of Law professors Ryan Calo, a CIP principal investigator, and Mary Fan, a CIP faculty member, discussed how...
Oct 9, 2020 | Events, News, Updates
This past spring, the Center for an Informed Public kicked off a special virtual event series with KUOW public radio in Seattle focused on misinformation awareness and designed to give people insights, techniques and skills to be better information consumers and...
Oct 6, 2020 | Events, News
Pacific Science Center in Seattle recently hosted the Center for an Informed Public’s Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West for an Science in the City virtual event discussion on Oct. 6. Bergstrom, a University of Washington Department of Biology professor, and CIP faculty...
