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Interview with Renée DiResta: Online Ecosystems, Disinformation, & Censorship Debates

Decoding the Gurus

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The Foundation for Freedom Online's Rogan Report on the 2020 Election

Rogan: I don't think it was the entire heterodox community that kind of went down that particular rabbit hole. But based on that man's kind of blog posts and his sort of misreading of how we worked, he just kind of regurgitated it under oath to Congress. He reframes himself as a censorship, I'm sorry, as a cyber security expert. It's a complete nonsense. There is no evidence of any of that in the Twitter files. That's kind of the most remarkable thing about this entire situation. You know you have to create a villain because you have to grow your audience. And so when it came right down to it, rather than reaching out

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