Renee DiResta
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Renee DiResta
@noupside.bsky.social
🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown

✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic

📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com) —how influencers, algorithms, &online crowds shape public opinion

🦹🏻‍♀️Twitter Files supervillain
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New from me: an essay on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and its remarkable 30 year history of witch hunts & blacklists.

It chronicles the progression of how industries & academia went from capitulation to defiance,& what we can take from that today

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
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Public health depends on citizens accepting scientifically-grounded guidance. When official institutions produce politically-determined science and independent verification infrastructure is eliminated, the capacity for evidence-based health policy collapses, writes Renée DiResta.
How Political Power is Capturing Knowledge Systems and Manufacturing Structural Ignorance | TechPolicy.Press
We're witnessing the simultaneous capture of knowledge-producing institutions and the elimination of independent verification mechanisms, writes Renée DiResta.
www.techpolicy.press
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Marc Andreesen,🥚, picked a fight with *the Pope* over a pretty basic call to exercise discernment when building AI.

Marc truly believes that any constraint on anything he does is fundamentally illegitimate.
November 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Augustiner Stammhaus in Munich for dinner tonight. A room covered in seashells.
November 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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The Father Coughlin story is interesting because of parallels to the modern era. Wildly popular charismatic figure (30M listeners at peak when US had ~120M ppl). Private broadcasters tried to fact-check, pre-clear speeches, ban him while fans protested the censorship. FDR tried to stay out of it.
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The Father Coughlin story is interesting because of parallels to the modern era. Wildly popular charismatic figure (30M listeners at peak when US had ~120M ppl). Private broadcasters tried to fact-check, pre-clear speeches, ban him while fans protested the censorship. FDR tried to stay out of it.
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Wrote a book about this as it was happening!
- political influencers are the new propagandists
- influencers + algorithms + online crowds shape public opinion
- the right is a hell of a lot better at it than the left

For more evolving online trends, a substack: agentsofinfluence.substack.com 😛
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Ask Joe Rogan how he feels now about having had bullshit artist Mike Benz aka Frame Game on to just spout “something something CIA” fantasies for hours.

Who’s paying Frame Game? Same people as are paying John Solomon, and War Room. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Here's my piece for @lawfaremedia.org on my experience covering the Sandwich Guy trial. Warning: longer than 280 characters!
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...
Sandwich Guy, Thrower of Hoagie–Or Hero?
The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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More than 200 people in the room for this @knightcolumbia.org panel on the future of press freedom. Thanks to @columbiajournalism.bsky.social for hosting!
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
lol “Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works”, NYC fusion voting edition

Musk just retweets whatever paranoid crank shit he sees at this point.
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
8th grade algebra is good: “But detracking didn’t work. Some people like to muddy the waters on this, so I’m going to be exhaustive: The share of Black and Hispanic students scoring “proficient” in math didn’t budge. The racial gap in…AP classes didn’t budge.“

www.theargumentmag.com/p/education-...
Education isn't a zero-sum game
The strange equity crusade against algebra
www.theargumentmag.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Counterpoint: this bullshit policy was touted as something that should be rolled out nationwide, as a fking paragon of progressive policy. It showed up in “detracking” decks in districts across the country.

While parents in SF literally filed FOIAs bc the district lied ab impact. No retcons tks.
I don't think it helps the debate about what Democrats should do to pick an obscure thing that some Democrat somewhere may have said -- like on teaching eighth grade algebra -- and then attribute it to Democrats generally.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped in on many online microfandoms to conquer the fragmented media problem, including a personal favorite of mine, the streamer who walks around New York making beats for strangers to freestyle to @ariathome.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Aristopopulism" definitely has a ring to it! Lol. People should be running with that bc jfc it's one of those things where they don't realize how it sounds outside of the Marc Andreessen group chat... 😂

No no the elites are The New York Times and the blue haired libs NOT the billionaires...
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Preheat oven to 375
Make a box of pasta, cook al dente
Mix with red sauce in baking dish, stir in shredded mozzarella cheese
Stir in chopped zucchini or eggplant or even just spinach - which you can roast in the oven while the pasta cooks, or sauté.
Bake covered for 30 min. Serves 4-5.
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING

do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Cuomo also locked in the coveted Elon endorsement. 🥴

He would probably get more votes if he used the opportunities to say “no thanks, assholes”
Didn't Cuomo deny he was Trump's candidate as early as ... today?!?!
"The president is right: a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani," Cuomo says on 77WABC radio in response to Trump's words of support just posted on Truth Social.

"Now it's gonna be up to the Republicans, and I hope they listen to the president," he adds.
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Reactionaries' opponents are always at once all-powerful & pathetically weak. Right on the verge of completely destroying culture forever, but also beta cucks who flee at the sight of a Real Man. All the bad things at once.
November 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I got put on her email list. Her mailers are deranged.
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A whole “encyclopedia” entry about this guy that manages to never say the word antivaccine…

grokipedia.com/page/Robert_....
Grokipedia
Grokipedia is an open source, comprehensive collection of all knowledge.
grokipedia.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
This year is not as dramatic as last year’s Nazgûl because the five-year-old picked the family theme, but I think we did well given the Disney constraint. The kids looked amazing.
November 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Today's Lawfare Daily is a Scaling Laws ep where @alanrozenshtein.com spoke with Brett Goldstein, Brett Benson, and @noupside.bsky.social about the evolution of influence operations from crude Russian troll farms to sophisticated AI systems using large language models.
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Not sure this happened suddenly, but it's certainly dangerous.
"Suddenly, nothing—including the racism, Holocaust denialism, and antisemitism Fuentes has championed—seems to be too hot for MAGA media to embrace" —@willsommer.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/one-of-the...
One of the Most Dangerous Interviews Ever in MAGA Media
Why Tucker Carlson platformed white supremacist Nick Fuentes.
www.thebulwark.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵
What is happening with this outfit?
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM