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...
Jun 18, 2020 | News, Recent Press
Mary Fan, a University of Washington School of Law professor and Center for an Informed Public affiliate researcher, was recently interviewed by The Verge about how video from police body-worn cameras and video captured by bystanders can tell different stories about...
Jun 10, 2020 | News, Recent Press
In a recent editorial about the social media during national crisis situations, The Seattle Times Editorial Board cited the work of the Center for an Informed Public to conduct “urgently needed research to help regulators and social-media platforms come together...
Jun 9, 2020 | News, Recent Press
Medium’s tech and science publication, OneZero, recently interviewed Kate Starbird, a principal investigator at the Center for an Informed Public, as part of an examination of breaking news Twitter accounts and a recent situation that “simultaneously illustrates two...
May 8, 2020 | News, Recent Press, Uncategorized
In a Washington Post article, Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro and Jevin West, all principal investigators at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, shared new research that focused on how a widely shared Medium article that misrepresented the science...
