News coverage from September 2025 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers.
- The Atlantic (September 12, 2025): “The influencer FBI”
CIP co-founder Kate Starbird was referenced in an article in The Atlantic, which wrote in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, wrote: “Shocking events without immediate explanations tend to generate collaborative, public efforts to sort through evidence and try to figure out what happened, a process that the academic Kate Starbird calls ‘collective sensemaking.’”
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- Cascadia Daily News (September 14, 2025): “Secure election system in Whatcom County has ‘multiple checks and balances’”
As part of its 2025 election coverage, the Cascadia Daily News republished a 2024 article about election rumors and conspiracy theories, featuring comments from CIP senior research scientist Rachel Moran-Prestridge, who said: “A lot of misinformation or rumors or disinformation are intended to confuse us and or to shape our impression of what social consensus is.”
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- National Public Radio (September 16, 2025): “China and U.S. say they’ve reached a ‘framework’ deal on TikTok’s ownership”
CIP co-founder Ryan Calo was interviewed by National Public Radio about the White House announcement of a deal with China that would allow TikTok to continue operations in the United States.
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- Al Jazeera (September 17, 2025): “Trump announces deal with China to allow TikTok to continue operating in U.S.”
CIP co-founder Ryan Calo interviewed by Al Jazeera about the White House announcement of a deal with China that would allow TikTok to continue operations in the United States.
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- Seattle’s Child (September 21, 2025): “Expert tips on helping your kids navigate the digital world”
A Seattle’s Child magazine feature on media literacy education for children spotlighted comments from CIP co-founder Jevin West, who said “encourage kids to read laterally. If my kids run into a claim about an erupting volcano with blue lava, I want them to immediately move from that tab laterally in their web browser and see if others are reporting on blue lava.”
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- The Seattle Times (September 22, 2025): “What can we say about Charlie Kirk? Only what those in power want us to”
CIP co-founder Kate Starbird shared comments with Seattle Times columnist Naomi Ishisaka about the confusing and chaotic information processes that unfolded following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. “… [W]hen the established facts can’t be fit into the preferred frames on one group or another, a certain kind of conspiracy theorizing takes over, allowing some to deny the facts.”
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- Columbia Journalism Review (September 30, 2025): “A new Gaza rage machine—with Polish origins”
CIP research from October 2023 looking at influential and highly visible Twitter/X accounts involved in dialogue in the three days following Hamas attacks on Israel.
