Jan 17, 2024 | 2024 Rapid Research Blog, News, Rapid Research Blog, Research
2024 U.S. ELECTIONS RAPID RESEARCH BLOG Many of the small issues that have previously been the foundation of wide-scale groundless speculation went largely unnoticed online. By Mike Caulfield, Mert Can Bayar, and Ashlyn B. Aske University of Washington Center for an...
Jan 17, 2024 | News, Research, Updates
Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in the world and the largest online repository of human knowledge. It is also both a target of and a defense against misinformation, disinformation, and other forms of online information manipulation. Importantly, its 300...
Jan 14, 2024 | 2024 Rapid Research Blog, Rapid Research Blog, Research
2024 U.S. ELECTIONS RAPID RESEARCH BLOG As voters head into the first-in-the-nation presidential caucus, recent allegations shared on X point to a “conflict of interest” in vote counting but no specific wrongdoing is described. By Mike Caulfield University of...
Dec 14, 2023 | News, Newsletter, Updates
This is the web version of the December 2023 edition of the Center for an Informed Public‘s News & Insights newsletter that was originally sent out on December 14, 2023. ESSAY Facts, frames and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking...
