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Renee DiResta on Our Invisible Rulers and Building a Credibility Counterculture
Manage episode 480001678 series 3662679
Before she was an associate professor at Georgetown and a cofounder of Stanford’s Internet Observatory, which measured the disinformation campaigns at work in multiple presidential elections, Renee DiResta was a new mom at home getting bombarded with anti-vaccine ads on Facebook. “Why are they hitting me with this stuff?” she wondered, and her efforts to find out led her into being one of the world’s top experts on how we get worked by the illusion of popular sentiment online.
Her new book is Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality, and in it she dissects the mechanics that made possible scams like The Big Lie during and after the 2020 election. DiResta has both a very realistic yet very ambitious idea about how we can learn to fight back online, and explains it beautifully in this episode. Enjoy!
32 episodes
Manage episode 480001678 series 3662679
Before she was an associate professor at Georgetown and a cofounder of Stanford’s Internet Observatory, which measured the disinformation campaigns at work in multiple presidential elections, Renee DiResta was a new mom at home getting bombarded with anti-vaccine ads on Facebook. “Why are they hitting me with this stuff?” she wondered, and her efforts to find out led her into being one of the world’s top experts on how we get worked by the illusion of popular sentiment online.
Her new book is Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality, and in it she dissects the mechanics that made possible scams like The Big Lie during and after the 2020 election. DiResta has both a very realistic yet very ambitious idea about how we can learn to fight back online, and explains it beautifully in this episode. Enjoy!
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