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Associate Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at UW. Researcher of crisis informatics and online rumors. Aging athlete. Army brat.

Seattle, WA
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Joined January 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 9

    Reflecting on how information uncertainty feeds anxiety about -19—from the perspectives of a crisis informatics researcher and a person living in an affected area (Seattle).

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  2. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    As our partnership has written, there are still serious weaknesses in the policy frameworks of all of the important platforms, as well as inconsistency in the application of those policies. We will soon be looking at some more scenarios to add.

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  3. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    This step-by-step guide explains how to collect and analyze data from Twitter on anything from coronavirus rumors to anti-vaccination claims

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  4. Retweeted
    23 hours ago

    Hey there, if you have lost a family member/friend/loved one down the QAnon rabbit hole, I'd love to talk with you for a story. DMs open. Signal in bio.

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  5. Sep 8

    In May, my colleagues and I published a blog in the WaPost showing how a misleading blog about Covid19 went viral. The guy who wrote that blog has doubled down on his claims, and is now citing RT (Russian state media/propaganda) to support them.

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  6. Retweeted
    Sep 8

    This morning sunrise over a blanketed Seattle.

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  7. Sep 7

    The smoke just blew in over a beautiful Seattle sunset, leaving us with a creepy and somewhat apocalyptic goodbye to the last weekend of summer.

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  8. Retweeted
    Sep 6

    Depressing but excellently argued piece from and showing how degradation of trust in government will likely hamper vaccine distribution and collective efficacy.

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  9. Sep 6

    The graph is interactive. You can zoom in & hover over the tweets to see who tweeted, what, when. You can also see the number of followers. Do a box zoom over the first few hours and you can see who helped to catalyze the tweet’s spread (e.g. ).

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  10. Sep 6

    To be clear, I think this case shows corrections working, esp. since this isn’t an isolated case but a pattern of people pushing these false narratives. It’s important to call them out, show how they are wrong, expose the intention behind them, & correct w/ “good" information.

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  11. Sep 6

    If you zoom in, you can get a good picture of which accounts drove the early propagation… and how, eventually, most people who saw this tweet (on Twitter) were exposed through corrections (via quote tweets and retweets of quote tweets).

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  12. Sep 6

    Here’s a snap shot of our graph showing how that tweet spread. Blue circles are retweets. Red diamonds are quotes. Red circles are retweets of quotes. Each shape is sized by the follower count of the retweeting/quoting account. Only accounts > 10,000 followers are plotted.

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  13. Sep 6

    Yesterday, this false tweet was posted. (Ballots have not yet been mailed in CA. This was not a ballot.) The tweet pushed a now ubiquitous false/misleading narrative about mail-in voting, feeding distrust in the election. Here’s how it spread on Twitter:

    My parents, who live in California, just received my voting ballot. I haven't lived in California for 10 years... This mass mail in election is going to go great!
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    Sep 6

    Since 1857, The Atlantic has been challenging assumptions and pursuing truth. Subscribe today:

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    Sep 5

    Labels add so much to the conversation.

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  16. Sep 5

    This tweet (that Governor Newsom is calling out and correcting) is an example of false information (disinformation) functioning to undermine trust in election results.

    Just so we’re all clear -- this is FALSE. Ballots don’t get mailed in CA until next month. And, for those interested in facts you can track your ballot here:
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  17. Retweeted
    Sep 5

    Just so we’re all clear -- this is FALSE. Ballots don’t get mailed in CA until next month. And, for those interested in facts you can track your ballot here:

    My parents, who live in California, just received my voting ballot. I haven't lived in California for 10 years... This mass mail in election is going to go great!
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  18. Sep 5

    I stumbled into that nugget while reading “On the Front Line,” a collection of articles written by Marie Colvin. Here’s the article she wrote about Karadžić’s New Age persona (sadly behind a paywall):

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  19. Sep 5

    Intersections b/w left-leaning pseudoscience advocates & ethno-nationalist political movements may surprise us, but aren’t new. E.g. when Radovan Karadžić was arrested (years later) for genocide committed in the Bosnian war, he was living as a New Age/alt. medicine practitioner.

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  20. Sep 4

    Pretty sure second-year coach Noelle Quinn had something to do with drawing up that last play for the . In any case, excellent play, amazing shot, heckuva game!

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  21. Retweeted
    Sep 4

    JEWELL LOYD DRAINS THE GAME-WINNING THREE TO GIVE SEATTLE THE WIN!

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