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,...
Jul 5, 2020 | Recent Press
The CIP’s ongoing work was recently spotlighted in a front-page Sunday feature package in The Seattle Times. “When a mysterious virus began racing around the globe earlier this year, scientists at the University of Washington’s newly created Center...
Jun 23, 2020 | News, Recent Press, Updates
University of Washington Department of Biology professor Carl Bergstrom, an affiliate researcher at the Center for an Informed Public, was a recent guest on Bill Nye’s Science Rules! podcast, to discuss the coronavirus, epidemiology and misinformation. Bergstrom said...
