West Quoted in NPR on Recent MisInfo Day
Posted: 3/28/2024 ()
CSDE Affiliate Jevin West (Information School, UW) was quoted by Kim Malcom in an NPR article about the recent MisInfo Day on UW’s Seattle campus. MisInfo day developed out of a popular UW course, co-created by Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom (Biology, UW) to guide undergraduates on how to identify misinformation. MisInfo Day was born from this course in 2019, when high school teachers were looking for similar guidance for their students. West spoke to NPR about the program’s intention – “The whole motivation for this program was to spend an entire day which might be the only day that many of these students will devote to this, what I consider one of the more important things that we can be teaching our public.” MisInfo Day continues to grow with events throughout Washington state. It will also expand to California this May.