Tech Policy Podcast

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 eliteHow do ideas take root?Influencers as exploiters of asymmetriesBullshit: an investigationCould platforms have stopped Stop the Steal?Fixing the expert classChomsky’s Manufacturing ConsentThe future of social mediaLinks:Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into RealityInfluencers, Bullshitters, and How We Lost a Shared RealityRenée DiResta at Politics and Prose (DC), June 13Renée DiResta at the Commonwealth Club (SF), June 17The New Media Goliaths (Noema)Agents of Influence newsletterTech Policy Podcast 293: The Supply of Renée DiResta Should Be Infinite