Dec 17, 2020 | News, Updates
By Michael Grass When University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce and Washington State University President Kirk Schulz shook hands to officially launch the Center for an Informed Public on Dec. 3, 2019 during an event on UW’s Seattle campus, nobody on stage...
Dec 16, 2020 | News, Updates
By Elliot Trotter Amid a continued onslaught of misinformation online, older adults often face an added challenge of identifying truth and spotting scams in digital spaces, texts and nightly news. To Center for an Informed Public director Jevin West, a partnership...
Nov 17, 2020 | News, Updates
This fall, the Center for an Informed Public awarded 2020 Innovation Fund grants to seven proposed projects, funding that will help support collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and timely projects intended to advance the CIP’s mission to resist strategic misinformation,...
Oct 19, 2020 | News, Updates
SEATTLE (October 19, 2020) — The Trusted Journalism Partnership, a coalition of nonpartisan academic and media organizations, today launched a public information campaign focusing on people aged 65 and over, encouraging them to take a reflective pause and consider...
Oct 9, 2020 | Events, News, Updates
This past spring, the Center for an Informed Public kicked off a special virtual event series with KUOW public radio in Seattle focused on misinformation awareness and designed to give people insights, techniques and skills to be better information consumers and...
Oct 8, 2020 | News, Updates
In July, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public joined forces with the Stanford Internet Observatory, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Lab and network analysis firm Graphika to stand up a nonpartisan rapid-response analysis team, the...
