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...
Feb 16, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
As part of the Center for an Informed Public’s ongoing Invited Speaker Series, Deen Freelon, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media, is scheduled to speak about “Hashtag heroes vs. disinfo...
Feb 10, 2021 | Events, News, Updates
The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, in partnership with Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, will present MisinfoDay 2021 on Thursday, March 18 and invites middle and high school teachers and librarians to...
Feb 9, 2021 | News, Updates
From left, UW Information School associate professor Jin Ha Lee, Jackson School of International Studies associate professor Scott Radnitz and Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering assistant professor Amy X. Zhang. The University of Washington’s Center...
