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Renée DiResta

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“They were trying very hard to make sure that the election was free and fair and that bad actors, particularly state actors, were not using their platforms to manipulate the public.”
2024-08-15 · On with Kara Swisher · How the Right Launders Online Propaganda with Renée DiResta · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Determining whether they were accurate really relied on looking to see if fact checks came out. So that was where we would actually, we never made a determination about whether or not something was true or false. We would say like, hey, here's this information over here. And we would put out a rapid response sometimes would link and say, these fact checkers over here say this thing is true. We would reach out to tech platforms occasionally. Hey, you've got this thing going viral on your platform, right? They had relationships with fact-checkers. They in turn could go and get a label put on content. Exactly.”
2024-08-15 · On with Kara Swisher · How the Right Launders Online Propaganda with Renée DiResta · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. But one of the things that we did was we led a couple of inter-institutional projects alongside Kate Starboard's team at UW, DFR Lab over the Atlantic Council, and Graphica. And those looked at elections, and they looked at vaccines. And in both cases, they were looking at understanding what were the best kind of rapid responses for emerging rumors on the internet. So during the election, that might be a rumor that dead people were voting or that Sharpie markers were rendering your ballot useless, things like that. So very much focused on voting procedures and then the context of the vaccines, you know, rumors that were going viral around the safety of the vaccines at the sea, conspiracy theories. And again, the thing with a rumor is you don't actually know the truth, right? It's impossible to know in that moment. So one of the goals of the project was to try to help other people who were able to respond and did.”
2024-08-15 · On with Kara Swisher · How the Right Launders Online Propaganda with Renée DiResta · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so Stanford Internet Observatory was an interdisciplinary research organization within Stanford Cyber Policy Center, and it looked at abuse of online information technologies. I describe it as adversarial abuse, right? So I was looking at everything from spam and scams to child safety, which was a huge part of our work. information integrity. So that was where the disinformation work came into play, a lot of state actor influence campaigns that we studied over the years. We looked at emerging technologies, how emerging technologies change the information environment, and then how new, how kind of bad actors, right, like people who were making CSAM and other kinds of horrible content, were using new technologies to increase their scope and scale of operations.”
2024-08-15 · On with Kara Swisher · How the Right Launders Online Propaganda with Renée DiResta · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
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2024-08-15 · On with Kara Swisher · How the Right Launders Online Propaganda with Renée DiResta · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT