Mar 1, 2023 | Education, News, Updates
Photo above: The main railway station in Helsinki, Finland by Juha Uitto / Flickr via CC BY-NC 2.0 CIP continues work to foster educational ties with Finnish peers around efforts to improve information literacy skills. The challenges we face navigating mis- and...
Feb 21, 2023 | Education, News, Recent Press, Updates
Although scientists and researchers have been debunking myths around monosodium glutamate for decades, it’s not uncommon to come across online reviews for local Chinese restaurants where Yelp users make unfounded claims about the food ingredient better known as MSG,...
Feb 15, 2023 | Education, Events, MisinfoDay, News, Updates
Nearly 1,000 high school students, teachers, librarians and other educators from across Washington will travel to the University of Washington and Washington State University in the coming weeks to participate in MisinfoDay 2023 activities, co-presented through a...
Jan 19, 2023 | Education, News, Updates
As part of the Center for an Informed Public’s ongoing interdisciplinary work exploring the ways mis- and disinformation shapes and is shaped by law and policy, we’ve hosted prominent legal scholars to interface with the CIP’s community in Seattle — our faculty...
Sep 24, 2022 | Education, News
University of Washington Center for an Informed Public co-founder Jevin West, an Information School associate professor, joined a research and policy delegation on Sept. 15 at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, State Sen. Marko Liias, and...
Jun 14, 2022 | Education, MisinfoDay, News
Approximately 300 students at Ballard High School in Seattle, joined by their teachers and parents, gathered for MisinfoNight on June 9, the culmination of student project work where they end up teaching adults valuable skills for fact-checking, contextualizing claims...
