Feb 4, 2022 | News, Recent Press, Updates
Explore news coverage of the Center for an Informed Public’s work and CIP-affiliated research for February 2022. The New York Times Learning Network (Feb. 1): “Annotated by the Author: ‘Covid Test Misinformation Spikes Along With Spread of Omicron’” CIP...
Jan 26, 2022 | Education, News, Recent Press, Uncategorized, Updates
How can I talk to family members and friends who embrace conspiracy theories? How do I pull them out of conspiratorial rabbit holes? These are tough, real-life questions so many people have been dealing with in their personal relationships with family members,...
Jan 10, 2022 | News, Recent Press, Updates
Via The New York Times: The added demand for testing due to Omicron and the higher prevalence of breakthrough cases has given purveyors of misinformation an ‘opportune moment’ to exploit, said Kolina Koltai, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of...
Dec 14, 2021 | Recent Press
UW Jackson School for International Studies associate professor Scott Radnitz, a CIP faculty member, was recently featured in a Coda Story Q&A where he discussed his research on conspiracy theories and his book Revealing Schemes: the Politics of Conspiracy in...
Aug 30, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Updates
In a recent episode of Community Signal, a podcast for professionals who manage online communities, CIP postdoctoral researcher Rachel E. Moran and undergraduate research assistant Joey Schafer discussed their work with the Virality Project, a COVID-19 vaccine...
Aug 26, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Updates
Time magazine recently interviewed CIP postdoctoral researcher Kolina Koltai for an article about America’s Frontline Doctors, a group that has promoted ivermectin, a medication normally used to treat livestock with parasitic worms, as a treatment for people...
