Jul 29, 2021 | News, Newsletter, Updates
This is a web version of the Center for an Informed Public‘s News & Insights newsletter for July 2021, which was sent out on July 29. Check out our newsletter archives. Not signed up to receive the CIP’s newsletter. Sign up here. Surgeon general’s advisory...
Jul 29, 2021 | News, Research, Updates
“Stewardship of global collective behavior,” a paper published in June in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and co-authored by 17 researchers from around the world, including three from the UW Center for an Informed Public, continues to receive...
Jul 19, 2021 | News, Updates
By Michael Grass In an advisory released last week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy (pictured above) urged all Americans to help slow the spread of health misinformation during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “Health misinformation is a serious threat to public...
Jun 30, 2021 | News, Updates
The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public this week announced a new $1 million gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to support the multidisciplinary research center’s rapid-response research of election-related mis- and disinformation. “The CIP...
Jun 28, 2021 | News, Research, Updates
A Vietnamese-language version of this blog post is available here: Tiếng Việt In January, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public announced a new research project “Sending News Back Home: Analyzing the Spread of Misinformation between Vietnam and...
Jun 8, 2021 | CIP Award for Excellence, News, Updates
A low-key, behind-the-scenes networked response to mis- and disinformation about the 2020 U.S. Census serves as a model for future multi-stakeholder collaborations. Mis- and disinformation is a networked problem, yet there are few demonstrations of a networked...
