Tech Policy Podcast 376: Influencer, Algorithm, Crowd — With Renée DiResta
Jun 11, 2024
59:53
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
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