Renee DiResta
📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality ✍🏼Researches propaganda, pathological information systems, and adversarial abuse at Georgetown (McCourt School of Public Policy) 🦹🏻♀️ Recurring Twitter Files supervillain
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Jordan’s reaction? Cry “censorship”…and demand his own policy changes.
Except there’s receipts showing Jordan knew that the claim that Biden was coercing YT was bullshit all along…based on dozens of his own closed-door interviews with executives!
Breaking down the Jordan Censorship Hoax ⬇️
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/speech--coercion--and-the-myth-of-the-censorship-regime
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⚙️We discussed:
- How social media incentives turn tragedy into spectacle
- Why online crowds don't wait for facts...they wait for cues
- The rush to mobilization, rather than deliberation
- How platforms should handle violent but newsworthy content
- Why we are stuck in this cycle, and what it would take to break it
https://www.status.news/p/charlie-kirk-social-media-renee-diresta
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UATX employs a bombastic liar as their first “endowed chair”.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/cia-renee-censorship-conspiracy-twitter/678688/
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The 990:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a45d683b0be33df885def6/t/689611ae7b730d1e61183af5/1754665390920/2024_Public+Inspection+Tax+Documents.pdf
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Last year, he pulled in $1.6 million to “take on” the censorship complex that he made up -- double what he took in the year before.
These scam artists are raking it in.
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I’m at the Liberalism in the 21st Century conference listening to Suketu Mehta extol the critical virtues of storytelling.
“God speaks to us in stories, not in studies.” ‘The Bible doesn’t tell us about research studies conducted by Saint Peter. Data is going to lose to parables every time.’ (Paraphrasing)
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I read every word of the Gabbard Files so you don’t have to. The arguments — when compared to the evidence, timelines, 3 prior investigations, and 3 prior meta-investigations — indicate either breathtakingly bad faith or astonishingly low reading comprehension. You decide.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from-russian-interference-to-revisionist-innuendo--what-the-gabbard-files-actually-say
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Stacey Plaskett asking him to revise his censorship industrial complex hoax testimony. He never did.
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— questions ab how public opinion works today, why influencers really matter, what antivaxxers get that the silent majority still doesn’t, & why participating in online trends drives ideology.
https://depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/renee-diresta-interview-invisible-rulers-long-shadow-podcast
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Once again this Administration is trying to rewrite history before our eyes. Substack cranks and right wing propagandists are helping them along. They’re going so far as to pretend Russia wanted HILLARY to win.
Pay attention to what they’re doing here.
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The sitting CIA director is now retconning that conclusion. A tradecraft review of the assessment found it should have been a *moderate* confidence assessment -not high- but didn’t dispute the conclusion.
Ratcliffe is spinning it as ‘destroying the “Russiagate hoax”’ anyway. (Not sure what the term means now)
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The data was very clear: the Russians had a candidate they clearly wanted to boost. Who do you think that was?
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/retconning--russiagate
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Those aren’t the same thing.
🎥Old clips of past protests that are technically real make the rounds…passed off as something they aren’t
🤖AI-generated clips & pics that *aren’t* real cause FUD
We also spend time on different platforms, w/ different stories going viral based on influencer incentives, crowd engagement, & algo curation. Feels like different realities.
I talked to @newshour about: what now?
https://youtu.be/r5a6zUms3dU
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This last year of sharing it w/people has been amazing. I have had many conversations with ppl it's impacted and I am so grateful for the support.
https://amzn.to/4jGKFAd
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I wrote ab Joe Rogan & Candace Owens! Dem strategists, if you want to know why "Rogan for the left" isn't the ballgame, get a copy. Better ROI than spending $20M on consultants who offer to "study men". 😉
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It's about who shapes what we believe: influencers + algorithms + online crowds.
About bespoke realities, fractured publics, and consensus collapse.
A 🧵 w/some updates on characters and plot points:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/invisible-rulers-the-people-who-turn-lies-into-reality-renee-diresta/20664632
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Now RFK is HHS Secretary & kids are dying of measles in TX. MAHA is a movement. Covid loons like Malone make 💉 decisions.
I unpacked the Big Lie: *how* influencers worked rumors into the propaganda campaign of "Stop The Steal"...
why the lie became an article of faith, how participating online locks ppl in. Trump is Pres again, punishing ppl who told the truth.
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Today, each of us is a broadcaster, every platform is an arena, and there are few shared sources of truth spanning the fractured realities.
The system I wrote about continues to grow in importance & impact. It matters.
Ask for the book at your library. https://reneediresta.com/books has vendors.
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Today I reread something I wrote in April ab Twitter as a public square, which includes a brief history of Twitter's evolution on content moderation. Right-wing wingnut media freaked out over this one (breathless fanfic about "regime scribbler DiResta", "disinformation career girl attacks elon musk!") but yeah, it's held up...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/elon-musk-buy-twitter-free-speech/629571/