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...
Apr 26, 2023 | News, Research, Updates
In “Mobilizing manufactured reality: How participatory disinformation shaped deep stories to catalyze action during the 2020 U.S. presidential election,” published April 16 in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), a group of CIP-affiliated...
Apr 24, 2023 | News, Updates
Like many organizations on Twitter that had verified “blue checkmark” accounts on the social media platform, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public lost its legacy checkmark last week due to ongoing changes under Twitter owner Elon Musk. While...
