News coverage from October 2025 about the Center for an Informed Public and CIP-affiliated research and researchers.
- The New York Times (October 10, 2025): “The WNBA gets more attention now. That’s not always a good thing.”
CIP co-founder Kate Starbird, a UW Human Centered Design & Engineering professor and former WNBA athlete, was interviewed for a story about online sexism and racism targeting players. Although Starbird’s work doesn’t involve studying the WNBA, she said that online attacks on players fit a familiar pattern. “They are trying to take advantage of this attention that they can gain from this moment the W.N.B.A. is having,” she said. “Some people care about it for the politics of it. Some people care about it because they know that political angle gets more attention and can be leveraged for more clickbait.”
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- The Seattle Times (October 13, 2025): “In today’s world, we need real stories, not just facts”
CIP research manager Danielle Lee Tomson contributed an op-ed for The Seattle Times opinion section and writes: “The challenge of our time is to find ways of telling stories about the world that are both authentic and accurate — stories that acknowledge complexity without collapsing into cynicism or simply trying to revert to the past. This requires more than facts. It necessitates imagination — on and offline. Because if we don’t tell those stories ourselves, someone else will. Indeed, they already are.”
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- KUOW Public Radio (October 15, 2025): “Is Trump an authoritarian? Or a fascist? Two UW professors weigh in”
In a KUOW Soundside interview, CIP faculty member Scott Radnitz, a Jackson School for International Studies professor, discussed the Trump administration’s expansion of executive authority and whether those actions are “authoritarian” or examples of “fascism.”
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- Cascadia Daily News (October 16, 2025): “Noncitizens aren’t auto-registered to vote, says Secretary of State”
CIP research manager Danielle Lee Tomson was interviewed for a Cascadia Daily News article about election rumors about noncitizens voting in U.S. elections. “Rumors about noncitizens voting in U.S. elections have persisted for many years and were a central tenet of voter fraud allegations in the run-up to and during the 2024 elections.”
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- Tech Policy Press (October 26, 2025): “Ryan Calo wants to change the relationship between law and technology”
CIP co-founder Ryan Calo was interviewed by Justin Hendrix of Tech Policy Press about his new book Law and Technology: A Methodological Approach.
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- The Monterey Herald (October 24, 2025): “Students grapple with the age of misinformation”
MisinfoDay California, a locally organized event in Monterey County, California inspired by the Center for an Informed Public’s MisinfoDay, was featured in The Monterey Herald.
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- Slate (October 22, 2025): “Why editing Wikipedia is becoming more dangerous”
CIP graduate research assistant Zarine Kharazian was mentioned in this recent Slate article about attacks on Wikipedia. Slate: “Scholars say the recent attacks on Wikipedia differ from earlier critiques. As University of Washington graduate student Zarine Kharazian has written, in prior years the discussion focused on the content of the site. Commentators framed Wikipedia as a battlefield of ideas, where users engaged in back-and-forth editing. More recently, the trend has been to make Wikipedia the target of attack, aiming to denigrate the site’s credibility without good reason or claim that it is controlled by a secretive cabal (instead of a cohort of thousands of volunteers that anyone can join).”
