Apr 29, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Updates
After the Federal Trade Commission published an April 19 blog post warning businesses that using racially biased algorithms may violate federal law, including the FTC Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Equal Opportunity Act, CIP cofounder and UW School of Law...
Apr 27, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
In an April 27 “State of Our Vote” virtual discussion with Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan hosted by the City Club of Portland, CIP researcher Andrew Beers, a UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering PhD student, discussed key...
Apr 16, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Uncategorized, Updates
In a recent piece examining the challenges the nation faces with misinformation, New York Times contributing opinion writer Timothy Egan detailed “three things we could do now to clean up the river of falsities poisoning our democracy,” citing the good that...
Apr 14, 2021 | News, Updates
When studying misinformation, the focus of attention is often on popular and social media. But in “Misinformation in and about science,” a paper newly published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, University of Washington Center for an Informed...
Apr 5, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
The Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington is planning a virtual workshop, “Challenges and Considerations for Misinformation Research,” on May 6 that will bring together academic teams researching mis- and disinformation to reflect on research...
Mar 31, 2021 | News, Newsletter, Uncategorized, Updates
This is a web version of the Center for an Informed Public’s News & Insights newsletter for March 2021, which was sent out on Feb. 31. Check out our newsletter archives. Not signed up to received the CIP’s newsletter? Register here. Important lessons from...
