May 26, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Uncategorized, Updates
By Michael Grass During a May 4 keynote presentation at a virtual conference hosted by the George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, Kate Starbird, a University of Washington Center for an Informed Public cofounder and Human Centered...
Apr 29, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Updates
After the Federal Trade Commission published an April 19 blog post warning businesses that using racially biased algorithms may violate federal law, including the FTC Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Equal Opportunity Act, CIP cofounder and UW School of Law...
Apr 16, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Uncategorized, Updates
In a recent piece examining the challenges the nation faces with misinformation, New York Times contributing opinion writer Timothy Egan detailed “three things we could do now to clean up the river of falsities poisoning our democracy,” citing the good that...
Feb 26, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Updates
“On the surface, a lot of anti-vaccine misinformation can be very convincing because they [activists] can take a quote or a bit of misinformation and isolate it, focusing on just that bit and removing all the other context,” Kolina Koltai, a postdoctoral fellow and...
Jan 29, 2021 | News, Recent Press
The Seattle Times wrote about a recently posted preprint paper from UW iSchool PhD student Prerna Juneja and CIP faculty member and iSchool assistant professor Tanu Mitra that found that “Amazon’s search algorithm boosts books promoting false claims about...
Jan 15, 2021 | News, Recent Press, Updates
In an op/ed for the Los Angeles Times, Ryan Calo, a University of Washington School of Law professor and Center for an Informed Public co-founder, and Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeastern University professor of law and computer science, write about “the several ways...
