New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...

What if conspiracy theories were taken to their logical endpoint and put into practice as a form of governance? @mertcanbayar.bsky.social and I explore this question in our new article on the conspiracist theory of power in @cogitatiopag.bsky.social. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Check out "The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale," an open-access article exploring "AIPasta," written by a team of @cip.uw.edu researchers led by @dashsaloni.bsky.social with co-authors @yiweixu.bsky.social, @maddyjalbert.bsky.social and @emmaspiro.bsky.social ⤵️

In a recent @fastcompany.com interview, @cip.uw.edu co-founder @rcalo.bsky.social reflected on the Office of Technology Assessment, which Congress shuttered 30 years ago. www.fastcompany.com/91378299/off...

Does your work explore mis/disinformation, scams, hate speech, or other forms of harmful information online? We are convening a CSCW workshop to bring together a global community focused on information disorder. We welcome short submissions, due August 8th. cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app

Excited to announce that my paper "The persuasive potential of AI-paraphrased information at scale" with my wonderful collaborators @yiweixu.bsky.social, @maddyjalbert.bsky.social, and @emmaspiro.bsky.social has been published at PNAS Nexus! Link: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

My article on the stakes around mis/disinformation controversies is finally out at @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. It is the product of my work at @eui-schuman.bsky.social with support from @stephofmann.bsky.social and inspiration from @cip.uw.edu.

"There’s a pressing need for a generation of people who possess a technical understanding of the technology itself and also are informed about the methods and tools of regulation," @cip.uw.edu co-founder @rcalo.bsky.social said in an @ischool.uw.edu Q&A: ischool.uw.edu/news/2025/07...

Proud to have co-led this paper with @morganwack.bsky.social (and other coauthors @ikennedy.bsky.social @beeeeeers.bsky.social @emmaspiro.bsky.social @katestarbird.bsky.social) looking at the impacts of state-level election laws on uncertainty and election integrity rumors!

Really excited to draw attention to this dissertation by Melinda McClure Haughey (@melm.cc‬). Melinda's research explored collaborative infrastructure for supporting the "sensemaking" work of journalists working on high-stakes, fast-paced & often data-driven beats. www.melm.cc/research/dis...

In @lawfaremedia.org, @cip.uw.edu graduate research assistants @ashlynba.bsky.social and @sprochas.bsky.social explore how "fringe election fraud rumors are becoming legal drama — weaponized lawsuits and policies that present fiction as fact on social media." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/how-...

“The design of social media platforms facilitates and even incentivizes this kind of rumoring and political point-scoring in the wake of crisis events,” @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social said in an interview with @nbcnews.com. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

In a @seattletimes.com opinion article, Danica Noble, a @cip.uw.edu community fellow and antitrust attorney, writes that Congress should not silence the states on AI oversight: "We need every tool available to protect ourselves as AI gets more powerful." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/we-n...

Great opportunity for practitioners to learn and collaborate with academic partners on projects about resisting strategic misinformation, promoting an informed society, and strengthening democratic discourse.

Our team at the UW Center for an Informed Public is recruiting for our next class of Community Fellows (for the 2025-2026 school year). Learn more about the program, apply, and/or pass our call along to folks you think might be a good fit for our next cohort!

Do you work in journalism, education, technology, librarianship, government, community organizing or law? We're currently accepting applications for the 2025-26 cohort for our @cip.uw.edu Community Fellowship program. The application deadline is June 20. www.cip.uw.edu/2025/05/27/c...

Thrilled to be at the CHI conference this week where PhD student @schafer.bsky.social will present our paper — co-authored w/ Rachel Moran (1st author) & @mertcanbayar.bsky.social — titled, "The End of Trust and Safety?" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

"If something sounds too good to be true or looks too good be true, it probably is," @cip.uw.edu co-founder @jevinwest.bsky.social told @washingtonpost.com in an article where he shared tips for being able to spot fake AI-generated movie trailers. Gift link: wapo.st/3S8fRgi

In a newly published research article in the Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, a team of @cip.uw.edu researchers interviewed trust and safety professionals and explored upheavals within the T&S industry.

Timely new paper from UW Center for an Informed Public's PhD student @sydneydemets.bsky.social & current Director @emmaspiro.bsky.social looking at "trajectories" of guests acoss political podcasts, showing how many move from the periphery into the center. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Learn how to spot misinformation & build trust in community health! Join our April workshop series starting April 16, led by Dr. Rachel Moran from @cip.uw.edu Free registration → bit.ly/P4HEApril2025Workshop #Partners4HE

Fantastic paper by @mertcanbayar.bsky.social, a postdoc at the UW Center for an Informed Public, examining how conspiracy theories drive political action in the U.S. and Turkey — and revealing key differences between partisan vs. non-partisan conspiracy theories.

Coming up April 22, 5-6 p.m. (Pacific): UW Impact and @cip.uw.edu are co-hosting a webinar, "Preparing informed citizens in an AI-powered world," featuring @shahanmemon.bsky.social @katypearce.bsky.social and @jevinwest.bsky.social. Event and registration info: www.washington.edu/alumni/event...

"Our social media systems — and X in particular — are designed in such a way that rumors spread extremely quickly, while corrections lag far behind," @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social told @bobbyallyn.bsky.social of @npr.org in an interview. www.npr.org/2025/04/07/n...

This afternoon, @cip.uw.edu co-founders @emmaspiro.bsky.social and @jevinwest.bsky.social shared highlights from the CIP's research, programming and impact across Washington during a WA House State Government & Tribal Relations Committee work session in Olympia: tvw.org/video/house-...

Coming up April 22, 5-6 p.m. (Pacific): UW Impact and @cip.uw.edu are co-hosting a webinar, "Preparing informed citizens in an AI-powered world," featuring @shahanmemon.bsky.social @katypearce.bsky.social and @jevinwest.bsky.social. Event and registration info: www.washington.edu/alumni/event...

Our team at the @cip.uw.edu recently hosted more than 500 Washington high school students, teachers and librarians at UW Seattle for MisinfoDay 2025: www.cip.uw.edu/2025/03/25/m...

“One of the dangers we see is that ... people are kind of throwing up their arms and saying, ‘I can't trust any of it,’” @cip.uw.edu co-founder and media literacy researcher Chris Coward told @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social in a recent interview. www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/03...

The @nytimes.com highlighted @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social's recent 2025 UW Faculty Lecture where she described how a “machinery of bullshit” has become "intertwined with digital media." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b... [1/3]

April 22, 2025, I will be on a panel by @uwnews.bsky.social @cip.uw.edu w/ @jevinwest.bsky.social and @katypearce.bsky.social to discuss how to responsibly integrate #AI into decision-making, and stay engaged in our increasingly AI-driven world. Register👇 www.washington.edu/alumni/event... #GenAI

New paper from my colleagues and me examining strategic information operations targeting UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. We highlight the participatory nature of these operations, which involve interactions among state actors, influencers and ordinary individuals.

In case you missed it, HCDE Professor Kate Starbird delivered the UW Faculty Lecture last week, about her research understanding how online rumors, misinformation and disinformation are created and shared in online—shining a light on the roles we and others play on social media and beyond.

Congrats to @uw-hcde.bsky.social awardees @katestarbird.bsky.social, @ceciliaaragon.bsky.social, and Nadya Peek, plus PhD alum @alexishiniker.bsky.social and DUB colleague @profjayfo.bsky.social!

I'm giving a talk tonight at UW. Heads up that the subtitle here is a bit of a misnomer. I'm actually going to talk about what my team's decade of research on online rumors reveals about the right wing bullshit machine. If you can't come in person, there's a livestream.

Coming up from 5:30-6:30 p.m. PST: @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social will present the 2025 UW Faculty Lecture, "A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations." Event is in person and livestreamed. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

A @teenvogue.com article on media literacy education in classrooms features the @cip.uw.edu-organized MisinfoDay workshops and activities at UW Seattle for WA high school students, teachers and librarians: www.teenvogue.com/story/media-...

@cip.uw.edu co-founder @rcalo.bsky.social thinks that a resurrected Office of Technology Assessment is just what Congress "needs right now," he told @technologyreview.com in an interview. www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/19/1...

Earlier this month, @cip.uw.edu faculty members @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social introduced a new, free AI humanities course, "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?," which has 18 online lessons, each taking 5-10 minutes. Learn more: www.cip.uw.edu/2025/02/05/c...

Coming up on February 24! @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social will be presenting, "A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations," the 2025 University Faculty Lecture at the University of Washington. (In person and via livestream.) ⤵️⤵️⤵️

@cip.uw.edu faculty members @carlbergstrom.com and @jevinwest.bsky.social have introduced a new free online "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?" AI course, something they think every first-year college student should take. Learn more: www.cip.uw.edu/2025/02/05/c...

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Coming on up February 24: @cip.uw.edu co-founder and @uw-hcde.bsky.social professor @katestarbird.bsky.social will present "A Spotlight on Rumors: Illuminating How Influence and Improvisation Shape Online Conversations," the 2025 University Faculty Lecture: www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

“Empowering teens: Enhancing information literacy through games and interactive programming” is presented by: 🔵 Liz Crouse, @cip.uw.edu 🟢 Stacey Wedlake, @ischool.uw.edu 📅 6 February | 3-4 p.m. EST

We're pleased to officially welcome Cullen White back to UW as the new director of strategy and operations for the @cip.uw.edu! Read more: www.cip.uw.edu/2025/01/24/c...

We're currently accepting applications for a new position at the @cip.uw.edu ...👇👇👇

Join us in congratulating HCDE Professor Kate Starbird on receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This prestigious honor recognizes her groundbreaking research on the dynamics of misinformation and disinformation online.

I spoke to the New York Times about how Trump could "save" TikTok from the ban, assuming the Supreme Court upholds it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

"We as Americans need to have better data privacy protections," @cip.uw.edu faculty member @katypearce.bsky.social told KING5 in an interview. "We're in a situation now, without paying attention, where we've turned our whole lives over to" social media companies. www.king5.com/video/entert...

🎉🎉🎉 Congrats to @cip.uw.edu co-founder and @uw-hcde.bsky.social professor @katestarbird.bsky.social! 👇👇👇

Applications are open for the inaugural Disinformation Summer Institute. This 3-day, intensive summer institute is intended for graduate students, post-docs, assistant professors or early career researchers seeking to better understand and address disinformation. More info: disinfoinstitute.org