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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!

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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.

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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...

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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-...

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@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...

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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...

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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.) ⤵️⤵️⤵️

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@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...

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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

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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...

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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...

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

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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.

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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...

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"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...

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

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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

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“Measuring the direct effect of labels on user beliefs and actions is different from measuring the broader effects of having those fact-checks in the information ecosystem,” @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social recently told @nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Attention Washington high school educators! MisinfoDay 2025, co-presented by the @cip.uw.edu and WSU Murrow College of Communication, is coming in March with two in-person events: UW Seattle (March 17) and WSU Vancouver (March 19). More information: www.cip.uw.edu/misinfoday-2...

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"In short, it is going to be more difficult for people to find information that they can trust online," @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social said regarding news that Meta is ending its work with third-party factchecking organizations. www.npr.org/2025/01/07/n...

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See my article arguing that the affordances of the podcasting medium and the lax content moderation of platforms like Spotify and Apple help to shift the podcast ecosystem right. www.techpolicy.press/-tracing-the...

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If you aren't subscribed to the @cip.uw.edu News & Insights newsletter you can read the most recent edition here: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/12/19/c... Sign up to receive the next edition: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Check out our latest @cip.uw.edu News & Insights newsletter edition, which features highlights from our media literacy educational work, election rumor research and other recent research news from our team: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/12/19/c...

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@cip.uw.edu postdoctoral scholar @maddyjalbert.bsky.social introduces "Who is perceived to be an expert on COVID-19 vaccines on social media? Biomedical credentials confer expertise, even among vaccine-hesitant and conservative observers," a new article in Information, Communication & Society. 👇👇👇

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Skepticism on the left about the 2024 U.S. election results “was everywhere” on social media, “but it didn’t go viral,” @cip.uw.edu research manager @danielletomson.bsky.social told @nytimes.com in an interview. “There was no coherent narrative.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/t...

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Attention WA high school educators: MisinfoDay 2025 at UW Seattle, organized by @cip.uw.edu, is coming in March! Learn more about our media literacy educational event at UW Seattle, which will include workshops and gaming activities: www.cip.uw.edu/misinfoday-2...

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In @washingtonpost.com, @pbump.com cites observations from @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social of the 1954 #Seattle "windshield pitting epidemic" where "there was no rash of unusual damage, just usual damage receiving unusual notice." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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We're currently seeking applications for up to two @cip.uw.edu postdoctoral fellows who will be hired as postdoctoral scholars. Learn more: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/12/03/c...

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In an AI-mediated world, "we will be utterly incapable of making fruitful collective decisions because we will have no shared understanding of the world," @cip.uw.edu faculty member @carlbergstrom.com co-writes with @cbo.bsky.social in Scientific American. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-w...

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Check out this @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast interview featuring @cip.uw.edu co-founder and @uw-hcde.bsky.social professor @katestarbird.bsky.social 👇👇👇

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How right wing media is like improv theater. My coauthor @danielletomson.bsky.social and I are really proud of this piece which builds upon ~10 years of research at UW studying the participatory nature of rumors/disinformation and Danielle’s dissertation studying right-wing influencers for 5+ years.

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Want to understand right-wing media? Take a UCB improv class. Fun piece by @katestarbird.bsky.social and me in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-right-wi...

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MisinfoDay lessons and #medialiteracy activities first developed by our team in Washington state have been adapted for use in other states, including California and Iowa. Here are some highlights from a recent two-day educational event at Des Moines University: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/12/04/m...

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Check out this new thread by @cip.uw.edu co-founder @katestarbird.bsky.social and new article in @theconversation.com 👇👇👇

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Great set of people to work with. If you’re interested in addressing the problems with disinformation and the flow of unreliable information, this would be an amazing opportunity.

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We're currently seeking applications for up to two @cip.uw.edu postdoctoral fellows who will be hired as postdoctoral scholars. Learn more: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/12/03/c...

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