Dr. Kate Starbird and her colleagues at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) have launched a Substack newsletter devoted to tracking rumours and misinformation concerning the upcoming United States Presidential election. This newsletter is part of the group’s “rapid research” initiative.
We will write our rapid research analyses in “posts” here, while also cross posting to our website, where you can see the rest of the 2024 U.S. Election Rumor Research. The “notes” function of Substack will allow us to quickly share and send observations about election rumors that may not merit a full article. …
This first post covers the background of the CIP, our approach to election rumor research, and some of the anticipated outputs for this cycle. It is an updated version of an earlier article and reflects some changes due to evolving data access, methods of analysis and communication, and personnel.
I first got to know about Kate Starbird when she was a basketball star for Stanford University in the mid-nineties. After a stint in the WNBA, she returned to university (University of Colorado) to earn a PhD in Technology, Media, and Society. Now she’s teaching and doing research at the University of Washington. Earlier posts her described her work on Crisis Informatics and Election Delegitimization.
