Awful lies can come with awful consequences.
Some of the bad misinformation we’ve seen lately includes a serial killer on the loose in Seattle, the U.S. Postal Service keeping people from voting and someone destroying votes for a big election.
All could scare or anger someone — and all are false.
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The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public was created to help identify this kind of bad information.
Taylor Agajanian is a research project coordinator with the CIP. She joined KIRO 7 on Friday to talk about the serial killer rumor and other cases of misinformation regarding
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