Kate Starbird
Professor at University of Washington, HCDE. Cofounder and Director of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Researcher of online rumors and disinformation. Also, former basketball player (Stanford, ABL, WNBA).
American academic freedom is in perilwww.science.org Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—to undermi...
American academic freedom is in perilwww.science.org Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—to undermi...
Knight Institute Comments on Supreme Court Ruling In Cases Involving Florida and Texas Social Media Lawsknightcolumbia.org
SCOTUS decision has come too late to help 2024 election disinformation researchers, experts warnwww.axios.com Foreign influence campaigns targeting the U.S. elections are expected to outnumber what's been seen in past elections.
Offline: In defence of Dr Fauciwww.thelancet.com “Is this what we have become? Is this what we have devolved into?” US Congressman
Kweisi Mfume was reacting to comments from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at
a hearing of the Select Subcommitt...
Supreme Court Sees Through The Nonsense, Rejects Lower Courts’ Rulings Regarding Social Media Moderationwww.techdirt.com Actual free speech survives for yet another day as the Supreme Court has rejected a bunch of fantasy-land nonsense in a case in which Trumpists were absolutely positive they’d caught the government…
Supreme Court Sees Through The Nonsense, Rejects Lower Courts’ Rulings Regarding Social Media Moderationwww.techdirt.com Actual free speech survives for yet another day as the Supreme Court has rejected a bunch of fantasy-land nonsense in a case in which Trumpists were absolutely positive they’d caught the government…
With Murthy v. Missouri ruling, SCOTUS clearly signals the justice system requires proof, not just political posturing - Coalition for Independent Technology Researchindependenttechresearch.org Today’s ruling in Murthy v. Missouri affirms what many have been saying since the beginning: This case should never have been brought. The original lawsuit filed by the AG of Missouri was filled with ...
Supreme Court tosses out claim Biden administration coerced social media companies to remove contentwww.nbcnews.com The justices considered whether officials crossed the line when the Biden administration pressured social media platforms to remove content.
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Discrepancy in implementations of social media election information policies in English and Spanish in-platform searcheswww.cip.uw.edu Our researchers find a significant disparity in enforcing election integrity policies when comparing Spanish and English search results for queries related to rumors about election procedures and e…
Fla. argues it could stop professors from criticizing governorwww.insidehighered.com A nationally prominent conservative lawyer, hired to defend the state’s Stop WOKE Act, asserted that what public university professors say in classrooms “is the government’s speech.” The national impl...
The anatomy of a resurging rumor stemming from peer-reviewed research that non-citizens vote in U.S. electionswww.cip.uw.edu Using peer-reviewed research in misleading ways will likely re-emerge in the 2024 election or future election cycles.
The anatomy of a resurging rumor stemming from peer-reviewed research that non-citizens vote in U.S. electionswww.cip.uw.edu Using peer-reviewed research in misleading ways will likely re-emerge in the 2024 election or future election cycles.
Eastern U.S. braces for extreme, long-lasting heat wave: How hot it will getwww.washingtonpost.com The Ohio Valley, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic will be particularly hard hit. Heat indexes over 100 will stretch from the Gulf Coast to Canada.
My Encounter With the Fantasy-Industrial Complexwww.theatlantic.com Online conspiracy theorists turned me into “CIA Renee.”