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Rational Security: The "Whale of a Tale" Edition

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Editors Molly Roberts and Eric Columbus, and Contributing Editor Renée DiResta, to talk through the week’s big domestic news stories, including: “Signed, Sealed, Undelivered.” As the first mail ballots of the 2026 midterms go out this we…

Managing the good and the evils of social media

Renée DiResta discusses what she recommends that individuals and groups, including governments, do to advance their interests considering the good and the evils of social media. Her comments are based primarily on research summarized in her 2024 book on Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies in…

Liberals Need to Loosen Up to Play the Social Media Game Against Authoritarians: A Conversation with Renée DiResta

Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Berny Belvedere: Renée DiResta, thanks for joining us on Zooming In, our flagship podcast here at The UnPopulist. You’ve been on before a couple of times. You’ve done podcasts with us, you’ve spo…

How Renée DiResta realized Grokipedia suddenly stopped accepting edits

In this episode of Show & Tell, we speak to Renée DiResta about Grokipedia and the contestability of AI-mediated information sources. Grokipedia is worth studying not just as “a culture war artifact,” she said, but because even if Musk’s AI encyclopedia fades away, “something like it will exist at …

"2 Impeachment 2 Furious.”

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Donald Trump becomes the first president in history to be impeached twice, ten Republicans break from the party over the vote, and Mitch McConnell weighs a conviction in the Senate. Then Stanford researcher Renée DiResta talks to Dan about online right-wing organizing and the spread of misinformati…

The Real Election Threat with Casey Newton and Renée DiResta

As the Senate debates the SAVE America Act amid unfounded claims of voter fraud, Jon is joined by Georgetown Research Professor Renée DiResta and Platformer editor Casey Newton to examine what actually threatens our elections. Together, they investigate how algorithms are engineered to push users t…

“I Don’t See Anybody in Charge Here” | w/Renée DiResta on AI, Election Interference & Propaganda | Shane Smith Has Questions

Renée DiResta has spent the past decade investigating how propaganda, foreign influence and conspiracy theories spread online. Now, as the midterms approach and AI makes manipulation faster and cheaper, she warns that America may be returning to where it was before the 2016 election—with fewer safe…

Institutions Are Losing the Battle for Attention. Here’s How to Get Back in the Arena: A Conversation w Researcher Renée DiResta

Researcher and author Renée DiResta has spent years studying how influence works online, including the power dynamics that determine which voices get heard and which ones have influence. In a new report she co-authored, DiResta not only digs into the transformation from old media to new, but also e…

Social Networks and Disinformation with Renée DiResta (S02 E03)

Send us Fan Mail SYNOPSIS Renée DiResta, associate research professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and author of Invisible Rulers, joins Rachel and Dan to talk about how influencers, algorithms and crowds work together to decide what feels real and true online. She exp…

Episode 4: Renée DiResta parents for the workaround.

Renée DiResta studies online manipulation in all its forms: political propaganda, viral rumors, false information, scams, harassment, AI slop, harms to kids, and coordinated influence campaigns. These are usually treated as separate problems, but Renée looks at how they overlap, and how the same pl…