376: Influencer, Algorithm, Crowd — With Renée DiResta

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 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)

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