🧵In 2018 the Senate Intelligence Committee asked me to help analyze a data set that FB, Twitter, and Google had turned over: several hundred gigs of posts chronicling a multi-year effort by Russian trolls to divide American society *and* interfere in the 2016 American presidential election.
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
Renee DiResta
@Noupside@saturation.social
📖 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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Renee DiResta
@Noupside@saturation.social
📖 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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