Interview with Renée DiResta: Online Ecosystems, Disinformation, & Censorship Debates
Decoding the Gurus
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The Cascade of Influencers
There's this interesting theory that says that influencers are only going to really kind of like pick up things that are not too far beyond the pale. And so it will kind of perpetuate the cascade. Here is a scandalous, salacious thing that I have just tweeted. And you are going to be much more interested in it than if I just hit the retweet button. It comes in a sense that person that pulls this thing up and really moves it through and really makes it explode.
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