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376: Influencer, Algorithm, Crowd — With Renée DiResta

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Renée DiResta (Stanford Internet Observatory) discusses her new book, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality.

Topics include:

  • Social media influencers: the new media elite
  • How do ideas take root?
  • Influencers as exploiters of asymmetries
  • Bullshit: an investigation
  • Could platforms have stopped Stop the Steal?
  • Fixing the expert class
  • Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent
  • The future of social media

Links:

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

Influencers, Bullshitters, and How We Lost a Shared Reality

Renée DiResta at Politics and Prose (DC), June 13

Renée DiResta at the Commonwealth Club (SF), June 17

The New Media Goliaths (Noema)

Agents of Influence newsletter

Tech Policy Podcast 293: The Supply of Renée DiResta Should Be Infinite

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Renée DiResta (Stanford Internet Observatory) discusses her new book, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality.

Topics include:

  • Social media influencers: the new media elite
  • How do ideas take root?
  • Influencers as exploiters of asymmetries
  • Bullshit: an investigation
  • Could platforms have stopped Stop the Steal?
  • Fixing the expert class
  • Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent
  • The future of social media

Links:

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

Influencers, Bullshitters, and How We Lost a Shared Reality

Renée DiResta at Politics and Prose (DC), June 13

Renée DiResta at the Commonwealth Club (SF), June 17

The New Media Goliaths (Noema)

Agents of Influence newsletter

Tech Policy Podcast 293: The Supply of Renée DiResta Should Be Infinite

  continue reading

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