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

Decoding the Gurus

CHAPTER

How to Be a Conspiracy Hypothesizer

Every great idea starts with a minority of one. We are not going to advance conspiracy theories. We will advance conspiracy hypotheses. I'm someone who's a true polymath. I'm all over the place. But my main claim to fame, if you'd like in academia, is that I founded the field of evolutionary consumption. Now that's just a guess and it could easily be wrong. But it also could not be wrong. The fact that it's even plausible is stunning. Stunning in big. Is it not, Matt? Yes. It is a suitable reward there."

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