Jun 9, 2023 | News, Updates
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill this spring that will require clear disclosure when manipulated or synthetic video, images, and audio, sometimes called “deepfakes,” are used in election-related media. In recent years, CIP co-founders Ryan Calo, a School of...
May 31, 2023 | News, Updates
News coverage from May 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. Reuters (May 2): “Companies wary as Twitter checkmark policy fuels imposter accounts“ CIP postdoctoral scholar Rachel Moran-Prestridge was interviewed by ...
May 24, 2023 | News, Research, Updates
The University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative has awarded Tier 1 pilot grant funding to Center for an Informed Public researchers working on a project that looks to address current gaps to properly document the impacts of misleading information on...
May 19, 2023 | News, Research, Updates
In “Rumors have rules,” a recently published article in the Spring 2023 edition of Issues in Science and Technology (and excerpted in The Seattle Times), University of Washington Center for an Informed Public co-founders Emma S. Spiro and Kate Starbird explore how...
May 16, 2023 | Education, Events, MisinfoDay, News, Updates
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...
Apr 29, 2023 | News, Recent Press, Updates
News coverage from April 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. Undark (April 6): “ChatGPT isn’t ‘hallucinating.’ It’s bullshitting.” CIP faculty member and UW Biology professor Carl Bergstrom co-authored an Undark...
