Daniel Walters

Nov 2, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Daniel Walters

Political pressure, loss of access to data from social media sites have made it harder to study how falsehoods spread It’s election season, and as falsehoods rain down like a monsoon, the “rapid research” team of academics at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public has been scrambling to analyze it all. They’ve tracked the claim that hundreds of illegal voters in Washington state were registered at a single address.

Nov 2, 2024 | columbian.com | Daniel Walters

Address questionsThe claim: A thread in April on X flagging suspicious entries from the Washington Voter Registration Database claimed more than 200 voters were supposedly registered at a single house in Seattle. The truth: The database had a typo. The intended address was the site for Seattle’s Compass Housing Alliance, which provides a fixed address for homeless people. The spread: By the following day, the tweet had been shared more than 2,000 times on X.

Oct 3, 2024 | medium.com | Daniel Walters

Daniel Walters·FollowPublished inFocus on outcomes·3 min read·--Estimation in software development is mainly wasted effort and should not be part of the routine development process. We know estimation is a wasted effort because, in most cases:Estimation will not add value to achieving your goal. A value-first approach changes how we think about the cost of our effort. Estimation exists mostly to serve the activity-first approach to work and as a crude attempt to prioritise based on cost.

Sep 30, 2024 | invw.org | Daniel Walters

By Daniel Walters / InvestigateWest Clark Gable — onetime King of Hollywood, dashing star of “Gone with the Wind” and “Mutiny on the Bounty” — died in 1960, depriving him of the ability to make public records requests in the city of Spokane. So when “Clark Gable” requested a list of names, salaries and job titles of “all city employees including law enforcement” officers this year, the city clerk’s office quickly realized it was a fake name.

Sep 19, 2024 | wenatcheeworld.com | Daniel Walters

From the beginning, conflict has been embedded in the Freedom Caucus brand. During the past decade, the House Freedom Caucus, made up of the most right-wing members of the U.S. House of Representatives, has repeatedly gone to war with members of its own party — showing a willingness to oust a Republican speaker of the House or shut down the government if they didn’t get their way. kAmx? =2E6 a_a`[ E96 ?2E:@?2= $E2E6 uC665@> r2F4FD }6EH@C< ?@?AC@7:E =2F?4965 H:E9 2 >:DD:@?