2023-09-23 14:21 UTC
“At UW, my colleagues, students, and I have been doing “rapid research” documenting social media use during crisis events and online rumors for more than a decade, and we continue to do that work. Our team at the UW Center for an Informed Public just issued a rapid research report on YouTube videos about the Maui wildfire earlier this month."
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@katestarbird@mstdn.social 2023-09-23 14:24
"The Election Integrity Partnership, a loose coalition of academics and other researchers studying the spread of online mis- and disinformation, came together around the 2020 election to combat falsehoods about voting." (The Post mischaracterized our work as designed "to alert platofrms" but that was only a small part of the group's mission... my team was focused on public communication and outreach to journalists.)