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Sensemaking Distortion

Reflections on Influence, Frames, and Fractured Information Spaces

Newsletter · By Kate Starbird · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    A Family Tree, Nearly Broken by Polio (opens the original)

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    Early this week, on stage at a Children’s Health Defense convention, Mark Gorton, president of the MAHA Institute, called the success of the polio vaccine a “massive medical fraud” and a “public health disaster.” In simpler times, this tragically wrong assertion wouldn’t be newsworthy. But unfortunately, we’re on a strange timeline where it

  2. Issue · Sep 3, 2026

    Tracking Rumors about Election Integrity in 2026 (opens the original)

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    Hi folks. I know it’s been a bit. And there’s been SO MUCH happening on so many fronts. I’ve been having trouble keeping up with it all, but I wanted to drop in to draw attention to work that my colleagues and I are doing in the space of election integrity. This might be why I’ve been so busy.At the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, we’re preparing for another round of rapid research to help people navigate the increasingly convoluted information flows surrounding U.S. El

  3. Issue · Jul 29, 2026

    Captured by the Crowd: The Hidden Risk for Athlete-Influencers (opens the original)

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    If you’re a WNBA fan who spends any time online (and maybe even if you’re not), you’ve likely seen content this year featuring WNBA players as characters within political discourse — with some players voicing strong and, in some cases, troubling political stances.I’m going to resist the urge to name names here and weigh in on the politics around those stances. I’ll save my thoughts on that for other forums. And I am definitely not a “shut up and dribble” kind of person. I think it is important f

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