Kate Starbird pursues her battle against fake news

Jonathan Rabinovitz (Stanford Magazine reports on Kate Starbird ('97) and her research on social media in the wake of disasters that uncovers a web of disinformation: Where Does Fake News Come From?

Starbird's work has been featured this year by several major media providers.

From the Seattle Times: UW professor: The information war is real, and we're losing it

From the Washington Post: The web of conspiracy theorists that was ready for Donald Trump

From BBC News: How a University of Washington researcher discovered an "information war"

An interview on NPR: