376: Influencer, Algorithm, Crowd — With Renée DiResta

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