Jan 29, 2021 | News, Recent Press
The Seattle Times wrote about a recently posted preprint paper from UW iSchool PhD student Prerna Juneja and CIP faculty member and iSchool assistant professor Tanu Mitra that found that “Amazon’s search algorithm boosts books promoting false claims about...
Jan 15, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Updates
In an op/ed for the Los Angeles Times, Ryan Calo, a University of Washington School of Law professor and Center for an Informed Public co-founder, and Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeastern University professor of law and computer science, write about “the several ways...
Nov 5, 2020 | News, Recent Press
As election votes are being counted, CIP researchers Kolina Koltai, Rachel Moran and Andrew Beers are hard at work examining the spread of misinformation online. Protocol, a tech-focused publication from Politico, featured the work of Koltai, Beers, Moran and other...
Nov 2, 2020 | News, Recent Press
Kolina Koltai, a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for an Informed Public, published an article in The Conversation that outlines how individuals can avoid fueling the spread of misinformation online during the election. Koltai encourages using the Stop, Investigate,...
Oct 30, 2020 | News, Recent Press
On Election Day, Kate Starbird, a principal investigator at the Center for an Informed Public, wants journalists and the public to be ready for attempts to undermine confidence in election results. Bad actors may use false declarations of victory, images of long...
Oct 29, 2020 | News, Recent Press
The SETI Institute podcast Big Picture Science hosted University of Washington Department of Biology professor Carl Bergstrom, an affiliate faculty member at the Center for an Informed Public, to talk about detecting misinformation. In the episode about skepticism,...
