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...
Jan 28, 2021 | News, Updates
Center for an Informed Public postdoctoral fellow Rachel Moran and University of Washington Information School PhD student Sarah Nguyễn recently received funding from the Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) at The George Washington University in...
Jan 15, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Updates
In an op/ed for the Los Angeles Times, Ryan Calo, a University of Washington School of Law professor and Center for an Informed Public co-founder, and Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeastern University professor of law and computer science, write about “the several ways...
