Renee DiResta
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic.
📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
- What if we rebranded “pasteurization” as a cleanse for your raw milk and “fluoridation” as supplements for your water?
- The SF algebra disease comes for Palo Alto biology? The Harrison Bergeron Unified School District approach helps no one, turns your district into a laughingstock, & mostly just galvanizes parents into voting out the school board as soon as humanly possible. This is such a losing issue for the left.
- Ah, we are doing this thing again. We want to increase the birthrate - fine - but that seems to come with some strings… JD Vance and Josh Hawley would like women to stay at home because that is what is *best for the babies*. What did Usha Vance and Erin Hawley do? 🤔 The Answer Will (Not) Shock You…
- The average person who engages with foreign governments in virtually every industry I’ve been in - finance, academia, tech, govt - files disclosures about any gift over the most nominal value, or turns things down lest they appear to cause a conflict. But this guy…
- The “accusing the other of that which you are doing” continues. Ed Martin, supporter of J6 Nazi and beloved guest of RT propagandists, now going to be at DOJ investigating “weaponization”.
- I want parents to listen to this, bc there's real power in organizing around protecting kids -it's an incredible motivator -but the mantle is being claimed by one side. Casey Means & RFK Jr use this rhetoric while undermining public health interventions that protect your kids. Needs a counter-mvmt.
- Framing, in comms, is how info is selectively presented... Counted -> "Targeted" Public research study -> "Internal docs" Presentation -> "Confession" That's how Mike Benz reframes something basic- "EIP tallied tweets in our report" -as nefarious. He does this constantly. It's the whole game.
- Watch the new Surgeon General nominee rattle off "too many too soon", "our bodies know what to do", "THEY don't let you think these things!!!!" and the rest of the core RFK Jr disciple articles of faith. Then call Bill Cassidy in the morning and tell him this time, vote fuck no.
- Two thematically related skeets here: one, great detective work by Bellingcat exposing an egregious AI forgery NCII peddler. The scumbag behind the site coincidentally shut it down last week… 🤔
- Our latest investigation, with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reveals the real identity of the man behind Mr Deepfake, the notorious site where non-consensual deepfake pornography is published www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
