Oct 31, 2023 | News, Recent Press, Updates
News coverage from October 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. The Seattle Times (October 6): “UW misinformation researchers will not buckle under political attacks” CIP director Kate Starbird wrote an op/ed for...
Oct 20, 2023 | News, Rapid Research Blog, Research, Updates
RAPID RESEARCH REPORT By Mike Caulfield, Mert Can Bayar and Ashlyn B. Aske University of Washington Center for an Informed Public Since the first news of the attack on Israel by Hamas, we have seen anecdotal reports from users of X (formerly Twitter) that the platform...
Sep 30, 2023 | News, Recent Press
News coverage from September 2023 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers. NBC Montana (September 12): “UM class gets attention for ‘Calling BS’ name” Calling Bullshit, a class at the University of Washington...
Sep 25, 2023 | News, Updates
The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public has added two new postdoctoral scholars starting for the fall academic quarter, Mert Can Bayar and Yiwei Xu. Bayar, based at the UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, is joining the CIP...
Aug 31, 2023 | News, Rapid Research Blog, Research
RAPID RESEARCH REPORT By Mike Caulfield and Kate Starbird University of Washington Center for an Informed Public The wildfires in Lahaina were still raging as the first questions about whether they might have been “deliberately set” emerged online. Though all current...