Who is Kate Starbird… Kate Starbird is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington (UW) in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE). Kate is a co-founder of the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, which formed in 2019 around a shared mission of resisting strategic misinformation, promoting an informed society, and strengthening democratic discourse. Her research touches on broader questions about the intersection of technology and society—including the vast potential for online social platforms to empower people to work together to solve problems, as well as salient concerns related to abuse and manipulation of and through these platforms and the consequent erosion of trust in information.
Our current FOIA system and the way social media is used by mobs make this type of attack way too easy and inexpensive to the attacker.
Conservatives and free thinkers have been suffering attacks like this since the social media began. Now others, who disagree with the anyone, have learned from the left how to use these tactics against anyone.
Get used to it because as long as social media exists as it does and as long as researchers rely on public funding which brings the obligation of public disclosure, this is going to continue on all sides.
Nobody, even the elites at universities, have a monopoly on what is true. The universe of knowledge out there is too complex and is too large for that to be possible
When anyone appears to condescendingly claim they know what is true in a complex situation, it will bring a reaction from those who disagree. Unfortunately, that reaction will now often come in the form of these tactics.
Our current FOIA system and the way social media is used by mobs make this type of attack way too easy and inexpensive to the attacker.
Conservatives and free thinkers have been suffering attacks like this since the social media began. Now others, who disagree with the anyone, have learned from the left how to use these tactics against anyone.
Get used to it because as long as social media exists as it does and as long as researchers rely on public funding which brings the obligation of public disclosure, this is going to continue on all sides.
Nobody, even the elites at universities, have a monopoly on what is true. The universe of knowledge out there is too complex and is too large for that to be possible
When anyone appears to condescendingly claim they know what is true in a complex situation, it will bring a reaction from those who disagree. Unfortunately, that reaction will now often come in the form of these tactics.