Renee DiRestaVerified account

@noUpside

Stanford Internet Observatory, Mozilla Fellow alum. Interested in how narratives spread online. Prev: quant finance, VC, startups. Many opinions about SF.

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2009

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    New essay up on Ribbonfarm! The premise: we now live in a world of bespoke realities and perpetual dissensus. This is the new normal. It's partly a continuation of long term trends in media, partly a function of the social-first information ecosystem.

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    Feb 1

    Ever wonder what vile, awful, ugly things say to those of us they disagree with? Here are just a few that were said to or about me in the past few weeks...

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  3. Solution: we used a pair of poultry shears to turn the pants into cutoffs, which she can have in 3 years.

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  4. 3 year old is a basket case because 6 year old split the knee of his pants at school and now she will never inherit them as hand-me-downs. “Now I’ll never get those pants! When I get older I’m still going to be sad about this!” They were dinosaur print. 🦖

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  5. But having white noise (or industrial music) on is somehow like magic for focus.

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  6. My version of the “I can’t believe other people’s brains work like this” realization is that other people can listen to a podcast or someone talking while doing something else and actually retain information. I don’t even hear it.

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    Whoa. Zerohedge —one of the web’s most influential disinfo peddlers—was just banned from Twitter after wrote about its latest coronavirus conspiracy.

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  8. A lot of solid policy shifts here. Many of these issues (conspiracies, unreliable info, grifter quacks stymying the efforts of public health officials) were a nightmare during Zika and Samoa’s measles outbreak as well. Hope this becomes standard procedure.

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  9. Misaligned incentives, inadvertent algorithmic amplification, people looking for more information about crisis situations provide a prime opportunity for grifters.

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    For this Arbiters of Truth series episode, and spoke with Stanford Internet Observatory technical research manager Renee DiResta about how technology platforms and algorithms interact with false and misleading narratives:

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  11. New scene setter up on the Stanford Internet Observatory blog: Poland 🇵🇱, which has fascinating political and media dynamics....and “ePR” astroturfing troll farms.

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    Jan 29

    20 lawmakers spoke on today. Final first vote was 17-14. Noes: Allen, Bates, Borgeas, Durazo, Glazer, Hertzberg, Hill, Jackson, Jones, Mitchell, Portantino, Rubio, Stern, Wilk NVR: Archuleta, Bradford, Chang, Dod, Grove, Moorlach (coauthor!), Morrell, Umberg

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  15. Enjoying 's talk on cybercrime at . Quote on victim-blaming narratives around ransomware: "that's a mighty short firewall you're wearing." Most of the focus in security is on system/defense rather than thinking about human and offensive elements.

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    Some impeachment counterprogramming: a new episode of 's Arbiters of Truth podcast miniseries is live! and I talked with about disinformation, vaccines, platforms, algorithms, and basically everything else:

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  17. People are lining up for this short-haul United flight before the arriving aircraft is even on the ground...it's assigned seats what is everybody doing.

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  18. A lot of the political "Trends for You" that I've been seeing have relatively low of tweets (1000-3000) and quick scans through the accounts show quite a lot of 1:1 follower-following counts, similar to "train" or "wave" activity.

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  19. It remains to be seen if mass blasts from the Bernie groups are preaching to the choir or persuading voters. Political scientists say the latter is nearly impossible, while marketers believe share of voice is key. Determining what caused a candidate to win will be really hard.

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  20. But behavior is the strongest signal of coordinated activity, and it’s not clear where the line should be when real domestic activists are using the tools as the platforms designed them. It's a global question at this point:

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  21. Using authenticity of actor is increasingly difficult as a method for evaluating malign campaigns - even the Russians have begun to farm their stuff out to real locals. Evaluating on content - urls, etc - is helpful for addressing sketchy domains.

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