Renee DiResta / is on Nostr

NEW 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality
✍🏼Researches propaganda, pathological information systems, and adversarial abuse at Stanford Internet Observatory.
🦹🏻‍♀️ Recurring Twitter Files supervillain

Book!: http://invisiblerulers.com
Me: http://reneediresta.com
Work: http://io.stanford.edu

Last Notes

2024-08-07 01:37:03

I wrote a book about how this works! Buy it for your parents…
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2024-08-03 16:50:29

I joined @npub1t4p…5qhu
to talk memes, trolls, smear campaigns, Satanic Panic, and Congressional reactionaries abusing their power. And also my book, Invisible Rulers.
I always appreciate discussing these topics with Matt bc he understands the drives and tactics of right-wing media better than anyone else. He is also someone I originally got to know largely because of Mastodon!
https://plus.flux.community/p/how-republicans-are-making-the-internet

2024-07-21 00:29:59

Explaining to my children that there used to be one movie for the whole plane.

2024-06-21 14:04:58

My Wikipedia bio got locked down, so the next front is brigading Amazon. This Twitter Files superfan explicitly called for 1-⭐️ reviews - and his followers delivered. Some left bad reviews, others upvoted them 80+ times. “Dunk on DiResta" — her allies at Langley are controlling the narrative! (Also dunk on Fauci while you're at it.)
This is the asymmetry of passion in action... these groups enthusiastically brigade their enemies while it's v hard to get normal folks to counterspeak or act
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2024-06-15 18:31:30

“In an alternate universe, I run a sweeping cabal. Its goal, according to the contrarian newsletters, crank blogs, and breathless podcasts where the fantasy plays out—is to silence right-wing populists on behalf of the deep state.…”
Here is my reflection on what happened last year, and how a conspiracy theory about our work upended that work, and a lot more.
#weekendreads
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/cia-renee-censorship-conspiracy-twitter/678688/
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2024-06-08 20:38:33

“A SPECTER IS HAUNTING right-wing dissident Substackers—the specter of Renée DiResta.”
My book is reviewed in The Bulwark today — and it’s a very entertaining read! 😊
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/influencers-bullshitters-losing-shared-reality

2024-06-08 14:11:41

Last week was the 1st disclosure from OpenAI confirming that state-linked actors were using their tools for influence operations —something that’s always been a question of when, not if, if it would happen.
But we also got a disclosure from Meta, incl some of the same ops — bc after you create content you have to spread it. Theirs showed that this time, it got no pickup…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/08/1093356/propagandists-are-using-ai-too-and-companies-need-to-be-open-about-it/

2024-05-19 18:27:23

🧵 I wrote ab the “is Signal secure?” manufactroversy on X. The Guardian wanted an explainer on why Elon & Jack were “concerned” about Signal. The answer, though, has nothing to do w/Signal’s product. It was part of an extended fight over whether woke NPR should be defunded & the CEO fired. Why? Because the CEO of NPR is on the board of Signal; by the Transitive Property of Bad People, Signal is thus compromised.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/npr-elon-musk-signal