Renee DiResta

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🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown

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📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality ([invisiblerulers.com](http://invisiblerulers.com ))

🦹🏻‍♀️Twitter Files supervillain

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Last Notes

2026-03-15 16:24:41 GMT

Covid conspiracies are no longer keeping up the income stream for this prince of the intellectual dark web, so he’s going full Candace.
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2026-01-05 18:13:50 GMT

Grok is unique in that it is both the creator and the mass distributor of NCII and CSAM all in one.
And there is no point in having regulations or guardrails to protect children if you don’t enforce them.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2whlowi5jjjqrdrrj4lxh2lx/post/3mboy3hmcxs2q
#note18u4…mrsu

2025-12-18 18:12:29 GMT

Show me the incentives, I’ll show you the outcome…
As long as algorithms serve this up and allow it to be monetized despite the harm to the targets in the videos, you’ll see plenty of it. The demand is there — because it’s not stigmatized as a shitty thing to do to other people.
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2025-12-18 13:21:30 GMT

What?
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2025-12-18 02:06:19 GMT

I wonder what it would be like for Jay Bhattacharya — Christian, scientist, head of govt agency — to try not lying for a change. Maybe also not presenting himself as a victim. Just for a week.
Here’s a screenshot from his latest op-ed about getting rid of DEI at NIH.
This is not what happened.
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2025-12-18 01:22:38 GMT

I can’t comprehend being a public figure for decades and still being like, yeah, cool, take this photo.
But it’s not even a candid where he’s slumped doing something human like looking at his phone. Of everything in the series this is the most bizarre.
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#note1sfx…3l9p

2025-12-17 21:53:42 GMT

The Administration is making noises about not wanting to “lose to China” in AI while letting abject idiots gut scientific research across the board virtually everywhere else.
This is intentionally-produced ignorance.
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2025-12-17 19:56:04 GMT

Gotta say, nailed it with this one -- the sheer number of leaders and appointees and political elites on X playing "wHY iS BroWn dElEtInG pAgEs?" is a new low.
The MAGA political movement is a project that spins rumors into propaganda -- now, from inside govt.
[www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/rumors-x-twitter-musk/680219/?gift=ymYfi5fGEGbizA5HTnXX54BwRAAma8URF7AabCKOQO8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[Rumors on X Are Becoming the R...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/10/rumors-x-twitter-musk/680219/ )

2025-12-17 19:38:52 GMT

The Digital Deception awards by Indicator Media are out...
I will be a contrarian here, I'm not among the voters but I think AI in Community Notes has significant positive potential. 🤷‍♀️ Not bc of factuality -human voters/reviewers matter- but for neutral language.
[indicator.media/p/elon-musk-...](https://indicator.media/p/elon-musk-is-this-year-s-king-of-digital-deception )
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2025-12-17 18:27:11 GMT

One of the people who most instrumental in turning lies into reality was handed the keys to the kingdom -- and rather than having TSC access to what is ACTUALLY REAL, has chosen to go back to bullshitting people on his podcast.
Let that sink in. The motivation of the MAGA political influencer.
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2025-12-17 15:43:37 GMT

Many advisors have also left — check the Wayback machine. There’s a story here for a journalist…
I’ve had one or two tell me that it’s because a couple of the professors and curriculum choices are insane. I’ll let you guess which.
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2025-12-17 13:06:15 GMT

The Pulitzer Board is actually fighting back against one of Trump’s vexatious lawsuits, saying, ‘If you were harmed, prove it — with medical and financial records.’
Not rolling over like some of the capitulating companies we’ve seen.
[newrepublic.com/post/204475/...](https://newrepublic.com/post/204475/pulitzer-board-trump-tax-psych-records-lawsuit )
[Pulitzer Board Demands Trump’s...](https://newrepublic.com/post/204475/pulitzer-board-trump-tax-psych-records-lawsuit )

2025-12-17 06:13:37 GMT

I hope that kid whose name was smeared all over X tonight sues the shit out of the clout-chasing hacks who profited off putting him in very real danger.
It’s time for more defamation lawsuits. This isn’t “free speech” and there should be accountability. Funders should step up.

2025-12-17 01:37:51 GMT

“Mom, what does ‘You’ve been screwing the milkman’ mean?’”
The problem with iTunes is that it understands explicit content to mean ‘swear words’ and so now my 9yo daughter who likes jazz and musical theatre has become obsessed with Chicago. 🫠

2025-12-16 23:52:05 GMT

The rumor mill on X is extraordinary dangerous right now. Prominent RW influencers have decided the Brown mass shooting was a targeted assassination. Now they’re naming a Palestinian perpetrator.
When we used the term “rumor” in our work the Twitter Files boys accused us of playing language games.
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2025-12-16 04:54:53 GMT

It’s a fairly different skill set & takes a lot longer. Also it’s nice to start from having 800k+ followers/ major institutional brand & name recognition. Otherwise video algorithms can be a big adjustment.
If you can get your institution to fund support I wrote an article making the case for this…
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nvfposmpmhegtyvhbs75s3pw/post/3ma2efylh5c2g

2025-12-16 01:42:03 GMT

Just to be clear: if 'no one was ready' a lot of people fucked up, bc those of us who work on this laid out what was going to happen 8yrs ago.
The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness.
[www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/technology/ai-slop-sora-social-media.html?nl=On+Tech&segment_id=212323 )
[A.I. Videos Have Flooded Socia...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/technology/ai-slop-sora-social-media.html?nl=On+Tech&segment_id=212323 )

2025-12-16 00:08:05 GMT

I was reading that story of people dying of cholera and was reminded of media treating crazy BS — like that “DataRepublican” crank claiming she found “$100B in fraud” using “her AI”—as serious.
I wonder if [@[email protected]](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:vitnj4ndng6jzpr3wqvndj22 ) feels even a little stupid.
[www.newsnationnow.com/politics/elo...](https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/elon-musks-digital-detective-newsnation-interview/ )
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2025-12-15 20:27:46 GMT

Oh hey we are getting a United States digital service
This one has Force in the name though so you know it’s not woke.
[www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...](https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/trump-admin-launches-us-tech-force-recruit-temporary-workers-after-shedding-thousands-year/410159/ )
[Trump admin launches US Tech F...](https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/trump-admin-launches-us-tech-force-recruit-temporary-workers-after-shedding-thousands-year/410159/ )

2025-12-15 05:17:15 GMT

I had a really nice weekend: a block party, one kid’s 🎻 recital, another kid’s 🎹 & voice recital (she’s a trip — shy IRL, but a *performer* on a stage), actually getting the ornaments on the 🎄, and a fun date night to a debate where after we found a great Puerto Rican restaurant. Felt v lucky.

2025-12-14 18:55:56 GMT

Those liars scammed and deluded thousands of people with their “censorship complex” hoax, feeding a victim complex and giving an online faction a boogeyman to rail against.
It’s hard to explain just how much bullshit they made up. The Wikipedia article on the Twitter Files doesn’t tell the story.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b2w6knttum53gvpukcykyct4/post/3m7wc552la224

2025-12-13 22:26:18 GMT

I’m at the [@[email protected]](https://bsky.brid.gy/ap/did:plc:zdkax6bg6xowo4yqsp5thweh ) / Dinesh debate, where they’re discussing alternate realities. Dinesh is re-litigating the 2020 election, complaining that fraud claims kept getting tossed on standing and were never properly heard.
He himself got sued for defamation over his Mules nonsense and backpedaled.

2025-12-13 18:46:37 GMT

Labeling is censorship. Fact-checking is censorship. Since the EU fined X, transparency & data access are censorship too.
Anything that moderately inconveniences a right-wing populist is censorship — even as MAGA increasingly realizes that X is riddled with scams.
[open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...](https://open.substack.com/pub/agentsofinfluence/p/transparency-is-censorship )
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2025-12-12 15:52:21 GMT

I wrote about why this is now leading to letters from Congress
[www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/right-wing-attack-wikipedia-bias-musk-cruz/684886/ )
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[The Right-Wing Attack on Wikip...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/right-wing-attack-wikipedia-bias-musk-cruz/684886/ )

2025-12-12 15:16:12 GMT

This is an extremely strange article that treats political/activist rhetoric (“civilizational collapse,” “the end is near”) as if it were the scientific claim set, and then declares “vindication” bc some change has been abandoned & public interest in various alternative energy forms has shifted.
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2025-12-12 02:48:03 GMT

This is like…the opposite of ASMR? She started whispering about the cockroach and I had to stop. It is actually egregiously awful, I don’t understand how this went out.
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2025-12-11 19:59:11 GMT

Art
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2025-12-11 18:33:28 GMT

"You can stick to the path of observable reality" -> quote tweets Pizzagate Jack.
Let's be clear: when it serves their interests & destroys the lives of their enemies, they lie. When the leopards are eating their faces and destroying their movement, they plead for the restoration of shared reality.
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#note1qge…8kty

2025-12-11 17:13:24 GMT

Remember when that app Rednote was a thing for a hot second? Anyone stay on it?

2025-12-11 14:29:55 GMT

New from me! I interviewed Jimmy Wales about his new book, The Seven Rules of Trust — we talked topics ranging from how institutions can build trust today, to how to handle govt pressure, to Elon, Grokipedia, and the war on reliable sources.
[www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily--wikipedia--ref-working--and-the-battle-over-reality )
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2025-12-11 00:56:30 GMT

“Currently”
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2025-12-11 00:20:43 GMT

In this companion piece I have to painstakingly explain how Matt Taibbi
1) gets our research backwards in an incomprehensible way
2) points to emails chains we weren’t on as evidence of things we did
3) imputes plans between tech & govt that happened 6mo before our election project existed, to us
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2025-12-10 16:30:57 GMT

He will make it up, just like he made up the lie that my team censored 22 million tweets. Except this time, he’ll be making up lies about people living outside of the US, pretending they are “linked to the CIA” —his usual bullshit trope, which has real consequences in some countries. He won’t care.
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#note1rpm…ps29

2025-12-10 13:34:47 GMT

Another paranoid crank given a job that impacts lives. These cosplay sleuth Bongino wannabes — they’re all “content creators” — are going to wind up just like him: grasping to come up with evidence of bullshit conspiracies while real people suffer.
[www.thehandbasket.co/p/conspiracy...](https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/conspiracy-theorist-election-denier-fema-gregg-phillips )
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[Conspiracy theorist election d...](https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/conspiracy-theorist-election-denier-fema-gregg-phillips )
#note1upj…qyac

2025-12-09 21:04:54 GMT

Mike Benz, the pathological paranoiac who never did find the 22 million tweets Stanford supposedly censored, or explain how the CIA ran me as an asset, is now “investigating” USAID — the agency he boasts about being instrumental in killing — from the inside.
[www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/usaid-mike-benz-cia/685195/?gift=ymYfi5fGEGbizA5HTnXX5waTjLYVN6Ee7JMyMil5HVo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )
[USAID Hired the Right-Wing Inf...](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/usaid-mike-benz-cia/685195/?gift=ymYfi5fGEGbizA5HTnXX5waTjLYVN6Ee7JMyMil5HVo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share )

2025-12-09 17:20:35 GMT

'Vaccines as demonic tools' rhetoric from one of the thought leaders of the Republican Party.
Nearly all antivax arguments are persistent tropes traceable to opposition to the smallpox 💉. They'd mostly dropped the extreme religious bodily-purity ones, but maybe they'll make a comeback.
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2025-12-09 04:12:23 GMT

Billionaire PR is lit today
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2025-12-08 20:55:37 GMT

Lmao over on X “Data Republican”, has just discovered that inauthentic amplification is a thing.
Nick Fuentes’ X followers may not all be authentic American humans. His posts…may be amplified by bots. Fuentes ratioed Elon…but maybe it wasn’t really real. 🤣
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2025-12-08 00:39:38 GMT

I was on a panel with Makary once, at an event an insurer put together. Onstage, he picked a fight w/me ab content moderation on vaccines. (This is why I did the panel! I like having that fight in public.)
Offstage over coffee, he talked ab dangerous weight loss misinfo targeting teens on TikTok.
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#note1khc…7gva

2025-12-07 22:03:01 GMT

Michael Shellenberger, University of Austin expert on climate, whales, UFOs, energy, free speech, homelessness, urban policy, trans medicine, the intelligence community, and 9/11 —and Hugo Chavez’s former PR flak— is going to Europe to lecture them on authoritarianism.
Regulating X violates NATO.
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2025-12-06 22:55:18 GMT

There are a lot of hot takes from Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and assorted regime propagandists on X screaming about censorship. This is what the fines are actually about.
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2025-12-06 20:39:40 GMT

The whole government is run by idiots. Every single department.
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2025-12-06 20:34:18 GMT

Invisible Rulers just released in Slovakia and I love the cover the publisher gave it.
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2025-12-06 05:02:09 GMT

“great American job creator”
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2025-12-05 21:11:34 GMT

Since there’s been an arrest made in the pipe bombing case I want to take a moment to resurface the reporting of Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public & University of Austin Chair of Censorship Hoaxes. He did a media blitz “just asking questions” ab if the 💣 were a “disinfo campaign” by the FBI.
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2025-12-05 00:31:47 GMT

“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that:
- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship
What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.
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2025-12-04 22:50:23 GMT

Reupping this since it looks like X is ab to get hit with a wave of fines under the Digital Services Act and JD Vance is already tweeting about how not complying with transparency and data access laws in the market you operate in is "censorship".
Get caught up:
[www.lawfaremedia.org/article/regu...](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/regulation-or-repression--how-the-right-hijacked-the-dsa-debate )
[lawfaremedia.org/article/regula...](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/regulation-or-repression--how-the-right-hijacked-the-dsa-debate )

2025-12-04 21:50:27 GMT

I am curious to see if Europe takes the approach that Brazil did when Elon simply refuses to follow the laws in the market he's operating in.
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2025-12-04 17:56:40 GMT

If you were a tech company employee who moderated content overseas — say, trying to prevent a repeat of the Myanmar genocide! or maybe policing CSAM! Or hate speech illegal in your country! — you are a “censor” under the definitions of the Republicans in power.
[www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-enhanced-vetting-applicants-h-1b-visa-2025-12-04/ )
[Exclusive: Trump administratio...](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-enhanced-vetting-applicants-h-1b-visa-2025-12-04/ )

2025-12-04 03:11:37 GMT

Appreciated [@[email protected]](https://bsky.app/profile/nilsgilman.bsky.social ) succinctly synthesizing irreconcilable tensions bt existential threat narratives of the left & right: on the left, extinction fears related to breaching ecological limits of the planet; on the right, demographic collapse
[nilsgilman.substack.com/p/the-duopol...](https://nilsgilman.substack.com/p/the-duopoly-of-doom )
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2025-12-03 01:23:05 GMT

This review is a very very enjoyable read, largely due to the juxtaposition between the caliber of prose in the evisceration vs the subject material itself.
[www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/12/02/olivia-nuzzi-american-canto-memoir-review/ )
[Review | Olivia Nuzzi tries an...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/12/02/olivia-nuzzi-american-canto-memoir-review/ )

2025-12-02 14:40:40 GMT

This is extremely “natural baby” MAHA coded lol
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2025-12-02 00:32:25 GMT

You know, if that hotel room rendezvous had happened we would all be much better off right now.

2025-12-01 23:43:32 GMT

Get familiar with the “color revolution” meme because the people IN POWER are trying as hard as they possibly can to make it a thing, and they have been for years now. Their base is bought in. The background on this deep lore from a Substack post I wrote in May…
[open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...](https://open.substack.com/pub/agentsofinfluence/p/deep-lore-digital-witch-hunts-and?r=6vlt&utm_medium=ios )
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[Deep Lore, Digital Witch Hunts...](https://open.substack.com/pub/agentsofinfluence/p/deep-lore-digital-witch-hunts-and?r=6vlt&utm_medium=ios )

2025-12-01 19:51:53 GMT

The “color revolution” narrative — of a deep state plot to defy Trump — came out of Revolver News in the 2020 election, with Mike Benz (Frame Game) heavily boosting its present resurgence. Schmitt’s brain is pickled in this stuff but the meme sounds Bond-esque - spy drama! - so it gets pickup.
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2025-12-01 19:47:25 GMT

Counterpoint: this is bad, actually.
When “trust in media” is increasingly rooted in a sense of common identity or mutual agreement, or a parasocial bond with an influencer giving commentary on news they didn’t source, the information environment is broken. The article is worth reading.
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#note14x4…4d7a

2025-12-01 00:19:05 GMT

It’s not about information, it’s about identity.
It’s not “misinformation”, it’s propaganda.
The bullshit machine is well-funded & understands the value of networked amplification.
As long as there’s no personal cost to lying or holding false belief, they will.
[www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/climate/climate-change-disinformation.html )
[Many Fighting Climate Change W...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/climate/climate-change-disinformation.html )

2025-11-30 21:53:33 GMT

🌱 it’s basically December and I can still go outside and pick herbs for dinner. We pulled all the wood chips and just let the small “yard” (glorified pavers) get taken over by a few species of thyme and oregano alongside the rosemary and lavender bushes this summer and it was the right call.
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2025-11-30 02:58:14 GMT

Is it possible that whole “free speech” and “ending censorship” thing was all just a setup by election deniers and useful idiots to work platform referees into serving their objectives? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Maybe there was no “censorship industrial complex” and these ppl never gave a shit ab free speech. 🙊
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2025-11-30 00:26:58 GMT

Media need to report on this as they report on other baseless claims of the antivax movement, bc the lunatics are running the asylum at the FDA.
The institution is compromised. Make it clear who made this decision and how little work they showed *in the headline*. Don’t confuse the public further.
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#note1ush…xv05

2025-11-28 02:46:01 GMT

Lego 10340 — Wreath
Post dinner family project. I saw it in the store when I was wandering around Munich a couple weeks ago and loved the little oranges.
The pinecones are made out of Minifig caps. The Botanical Collection is so innovative.
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2025-11-27 00:27:39 GMT

No major religion objects to vaccines.
All major religions object to liars.
[www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/west-virginia-court-vaccine-law-religious-exemptions.html?smid=threads-nytimes )
[State Court Rules School Vacci...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/west-virginia-court-vaccine-law-religious-exemptions.html?smid=threads-nytimes )

2025-11-26 19:20:27 GMT

Essay worth reading by [@[email protected]](https://bsky.app/profile/joho.bsky.social )
[sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-role-of-social-media-in-propagating-misinformation-is-a-form-of-germ-theory-denial-not-for-pathogens-but-for-ideas/ )
[To Deny The Role of Social Med...](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-role-of-social-media-in-propagating-misinformation-is-a-form-of-germ-theory-denial-not-for-pathogens-but-for-ideas/ )

2025-11-25 19:20:36 GMT

Good.
[www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/world/americas/bolsonaro-arrest-prison-sentence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share )
[Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/world/americas/bolsonaro-arrest-prison-sentence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share )

2025-11-24 18:51:52 GMT

By me: a brief history of foreign agitators pretending to be Americans over the last decade, with most out to make a buck monetizing the culture war 💸(politics matter less than you think), and what X’s new feature shows…
[open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...](https://open.substack.com/pub/agentsofinfluence/p/on-the-internet-no-one-knows-youre?r=6vlt&utm_medium=ios )
[On the Internet No One Knows Y...](https://open.substack.com/pub/agentsofinfluence/p/on-the-internet-no-one-knows-youre?r=6vlt&utm_medium=ios )

2025-11-23 17:23:33 GMT

The reason this is happening is a combination of 1) incentives and 2) supply meeting demand.
There is no more consistent result in studies of monetized propaganda than that the MAGA right is a particularly receptive niche.
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#note19w8…w7ej

2025-11-23 05:11:21 GMT

I see a lot of Paidchecks on X didn’t realize that a whole lot of people on social media lie about their location to grift off the naïveté of the rage-addled American right.
Turns out this problem is real and it’s a thing those of us who worked on “disinformation” pointed out.

2025-11-22 18:48:38 GMT

A must read. Click through.
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2025-11-22 17:13:19 GMT

What Rand Paul is doing is what Jim Jordan did to Stanford Internet Observatory. Under the pretext of “oversight“ he can make sweeping requests —w/the intent to harass & chill.
The universities can fight. But most are afraid of broader attacks so they quickly comply.
[www.wired.com/story/senato...](https://www.wired.com/story/senators-want-extremism-researchers-to-surrender-documents-linked-to-right-wing-grudges/ )
[Senators Want Extremism Resear...](https://www.wired.com/story/senators-want-extremism-researchers-to-surrender-documents-linked-to-right-wing-grudges/ )

2025-11-21 22:13:39 GMT

Someone check on Bill Ackman
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2025-11-21 19:09:08 GMT

A crackpot with control over the infrastructure trying to force reality to bend to his fringe beliefs.
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2025-11-20 06:38:29 GMT

The lunatics are running the asylum.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
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2025-11-20 01:54:07 GMT

Just wanna re-up in simple terms that when Biden talked to platforms, Jim Jordan launched years of investigations into everybody involved, said it was tyranny, censorship, etc.
And now they just straight up acknowledge that they talk to platforms too.
[www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3890483/lies-smears-ai-deepfakes-dhs-tackles-fake-news-about-ice/ )
[DHS playing 'whack-a-mole' sho...](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3890483/lies-smears-ai-deepfakes-dhs-tackles-fake-news-about-ice/ )

2025-11-20 01:37:01 GMT

Ok Matt Taibbi has posted.
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#note1vm9…snll

2025-11-19 21:27:11 GMT

Incredible stuff happening over at DHS, which is...talking to tech platforms ab deepfakes & disinfo? 👀 👀
Matt Taibbi hasn't yet spoken. Neither has Shellenberger. Mike Benz is posting about "The BBC, The CIA & The Marshall Plan Of The Mind".
[www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3890483/lies-smears-ai-deepfakes-dhs-tackles-fake-news-about-ice/ )
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2025-11-19 19:55:06 GMT

Don’t miss this one
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2025-11-19 16:57:18 GMT

Paul Thacker is mad at me on X again...he's calling me a "fake academic" which I think is supposed to be a burn but is a term I've used myself since I don't have a PhD lol.
Anyway here's Paul's bio, which still lists a Harvard fellowship that he had for 2 years, 10 yrs ago. Fake academic what what?
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2025-11-19 12:50:11 GMT

Vaccine edition: “Why didn’t the people who got vaccinated to help end a global pandemic defend my choice not to? 😢”
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#note17k4…l5wq

2025-11-18 20:55:57 GMT

top-tier story about Tulsi apparently dropping soon...
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2025-11-18 18:54:51 GMT

Matt also figures in my book, as a lying hack who cuts emails in half to try to make the Twitter Files a story, not caring that he's sending mobs of nutjobs after undergraduates.
Enjoy this podcast.
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2025-11-18 17:46:00 GMT

Yet more evidence that San Francisco went in the exact opposite of the right direction
[www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/11/18/algebra-racial-disparities/ )
[Race is linked to who gets to ...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/11/18/algebra-racial-disparities/ )

2025-11-18 14:48:02 GMT

This is a good phrase
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2025-11-18 02:35:44 GMT

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger argues The Epoch Times should be treated as reputable.
MAGA Congressmen demand info on Wikipedia editors.
Musk's Grokipedia cites Stormfront.
The war for reality is being fought over "reliable sources"
New from me on Substack: [substack.com/home/post/p-...](https://substack.com/home/post/p-179023781 )
[Source Wars and Bespoke Realit...](https://substack.com/home/post/p-179023781 )

2025-11-17 00:49:44 GMT

We did a birthday party for our newly 9yo this weekend. She is super into Kuromi. She picked out my nails, and art-directed our outfits. 🖤
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2025-11-16 19:33:29 GMT

New from me on Substack: “Source Wars and Bespoke Realities: Wikipedia, Grokipedia, and The Battle for Truth”
I wrote about the high stakes power game over “reliable sources” — and the story of how Grokipedia did change its entry ab me after my Atlantic article on its hallucinations last week.
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2025-11-15 01:40:33 GMT

Just finished 5 cities in 6 days. I really appreciated Munich. Photo from Mon night, outside the building where part of Czechoslovakia was signed away. I got to visit the Documentation Center, which had an exhibit that focused in part on the role propaganda and appeasement played in Hitler’s rise.
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2025-11-14 23:03:24 GMT

The New York Times won’t use the word but we should because it’s obvious: right wing political influencers aren’t just ‘close to’ the administration — they are its propagandists in the most literal sense of that word. They financially benefit from access & loyalty.
[www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/business/media/epstein-trump-emails-conservative-media.html )
[Conservative Media Picks an Ep...](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/business/media/epstein-trump-emails-conservative-media.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare )

2025-11-14 22:16:20 GMT

I wrote ab how the antivax movement ascended to power, and now directs govt research funding — enabling it both to manufacture “findings” and to defund actual independent research.
This happened concurrently w/the dismantling of outside verification systems where info is distributed: on social.
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2025-11-12 21:40:58 GMT

New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines.
[www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/right-wing-attack-wikipedia-bias-musk-cruz/684886/ )
[The Right-Wing Attack on Wikip...](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/right-wing-attack-wikipedia-bias-musk-cruz/684886/ )

2025-11-12 16:03:53 GMT

"It's just some people online" was the phrase that I got from the CDC after presenting as a pro-vax parent activist 10 yrs ago on how we were trying to build a counter-movement online but had no resources. This is an analysis we published in Wired, that later became the cover of The Economist. 1/2
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2025-11-12 15:25:09 GMT

Katherine Boyle is a Silicon Valley caricature at this point.
I have a boy who's very good at math, not so good at illusory authority, and I parent him on how to work within the confines of that system but damn lol. "It's ok to be a dick if you're good at math" is not where I've taken it.
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2025-11-12 01:58:50 GMT

Truth Social now has its own custom Perplexity AI search that is having some real struggles with cognitive dissonance.
It knows the facts — the election wasn’t stolen! Vaccines don’t cause autism!
But it ALSO seems to have had its sources constrained to right wing crank media 🫠 Poor bot…
1/2
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2025-11-11 09:55:55 GMT

“Tucker in the grocery store” content incoming lol
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2025-11-09 22:34:57 GMT

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.
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2025-11-09 22:17:14 GMT

Augustiner Stammhaus in Munich for dinner tonight. A room covered in seashells.
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2025-11-08 23:31:15 GMT

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.
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2025-11-08 23:17:00 GMT

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](https://agentsofinfluence.substack.com ) 😛
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2025-11-07 09:51:41 GMT

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...](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/inside-the-hidden-conservative-network-bankrolling-an-ecosystem-of-right-wing-news-informing-america-john-solomon-war-room/ )
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2025-11-05 03:07:49 GMT

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.
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2025-11-05 01:24:42 GMT

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-...](https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/education-isnt-a-zero-sum-game )
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