Following the start of voting in the 2025-2026 ASCWU election on Monday, the student-only social media app Fizz has become a platform for anonymous accusations and controversy surrounding a variety of ASCWU student candidates.

Cesca Gossing, a candidate for ASCWU Vice President (VP), posted a public response on her campaign Instagram following negative comments across Fizz. “I am coming to you not only as your VP Candidate but just as Cesca,” Gossing said in the statement. 

“Recently, some defaming, harmful, and frankly just purely false statements have been made regarding me, my character and my campaign. Statements about my personality, professionalism, and even my sobriety at my workplace,” Gossing continued. 

“In my two years working at ASCWU and at CWU in general, I have never been questioned by either a co-worker or a higher up about my professionalism, work ethic or personality. While my stoicism and frankness have been skewed as one thing, that is simply the way I behave professionally.”

The official Fizz Instagram account for Central Washington University, an account run by a student at CWU but owned by the Fizz corporation, and which makes comments from the student-only app public, shared a post detailing allegations against multiple ASCWU candidates with the caption, “the girlies are fighting again.” The post was later taken down.

Gossing continued in her statement to describe how comments like this can impact a person outside the Fizz app. “This kind of rhetoric is not only completely inaccurate but deeply harmful,” Gossing stated. “I’m a human just like you all and, while fighting to uplift student voices, this election has gone to a dark place.”