Dec 4, 2019 | News, Updates
Story by Doug Parry, Photos by Olivia Hagan With more than 400 people packed into the UW HUB’s South Ballroom, Jevin West started off with a puzzle. The Center for an Informed Public’s inaugural director showed side-by-side images of two women’s faces and asked the...
Oct 31, 2019 | News, Recent Press
Center for an Informed Public Director Jevin West and faculty affiliate Carl Bergstrom went on NPR’s “Life Kit” podcast to share tips for spotting misinformation. West and Bergstrom teamed up at the University of Washington to create the...
Oct 17, 2019 | News, Recent Press
The UW’s student newspaper explores how the CIP grew out of the UW’s “Calling Bullshit” course and how it plans to work collaboratively to take on the problem of misinformation. “We can’t really talk as a collective, as a population, if we can’t trust anything we’re...
Jul 2, 2019 | News, Recent Press
The New Yorker and The New York Times each reported on California’s effort to reduce the power of bots by requiring that they reveal their “artificial identity” when they are used to sell a product or influence a voter. They cited a recent paper co-authored by...
