Mar 30, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
By Michael Grass More than 1,000 middle and high school students, teachers and educators from across Washington state and the nation participated in MisinfoDay 2021, a series of virtual workshops on March 18 where facilitators explored strategies for spotting...
Mar 23, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
As part of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public’s ongoing Invited Speaker Series, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and professor of political communication at the University of...
Mar 11, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
Educators from across Washington state are leading the way in the development of misinformation awareness lessons and resources. MisinfoDay, an educational event that started at the University of Washington Information School in 2019, has expanded its reach in 2021...
Mar 4, 2021 | News, Updates
The University of Washington Center for an Informed Public’s Invited Speaker Series will continue on March 9 with David Nemer, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, who will discuss his research into how WhatsApp became a potent...
Mar 2, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a nonpartisan coalition of researchers that identified, tracked and responded to voting-related mis- and disinformation during the 2020 U.S. elections, released its final report, “The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020...
Feb 26, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Updates
“On the surface, a lot of anti-vaccine misinformation can be very convincing because they [activists] can take a quote or a bit of misinformation and isolate it, focusing on just that bit and removing all the other context,” Kolina Koltai, a postdoctoral fellow and...
