Jan 26, 2022 | Education, News, Recent Press, Uncategorized, Updates
How can I talk to family members and friends who embrace conspiracy theories? How do I pull them out of conspiratorial rabbit holes? These are tough, real-life questions so many people have been dealing with in their personal relationships with family members,...
Jan 10, 2022 | News, Recent Press, Updates
Via The New York Times: The added demand for testing due to Omicron and the higher prevalence of breakthrough cases has given purveyors of misinformation an ‘opportune moment’ to exploit, said Kolina Koltai, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of...
Jan 5, 2022 | Education, MisinfoDay, Updates
Leading up to MisinfoDay 2022, the UW Center for an Informed Public, in partnership with the WSU Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, has launched a series of MisinfoDay Monthly video lessons for secondary students and educators. In our January MisinfoDay...
Dec 20, 2021 | News, Research, Updates
University of Washington Center for an Informed Public undergraduate research assistant Joseph S. Schafer, a fourth-year computer science student minoring in ethics, has been awarded a Mary Gates Research Scholarship that will help support his ongoing research with...
Dec 17, 2021 | News, Research, Updates
This fall, the Center for an Informed Public awarded Innovation Fund grants to four project proposals, funding that will help support collaborative, multi-disciplinary and timely work intended to advance the CIP’s mission to resist strategic misinformation, promote an...
Dec 8, 2021 | News, Research, Updates
To understand the dynamics and complexities of misinformation, it’s vital to understand three key distinctions — misinformation vs. disinformation, speech vs. action and mistaken belief vs. conviction — the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public’s...
