Renee DiResta

Two weeks ago The Free Press let a whiner publish 2000 words ab how I got his book review cEnsoReD. It was pure nonsense from the moment it went out—but I spent the next 14 days trying to get them to post an Editor’s Note and admit reality. They won’t. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

What happened today is awful. People who fight against gun violence, people who loathe what Charlie Kirk stood for, must also condemn political violence. It’s a vicious cycle. This is a very dangerous moment.

MAHA wasn’t a response to COVID and any journalist who doesn’t understand that it *exploited COVID* intentionally, deliberately from day one should pack it in bc they’re a dupe. Cover people who want to improve nutrition if that’s what you want to talk about. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Since Michael Shellenberger namechecked me in his latest fundraising appeal for his "Civilization Works" grift, I pulled up his 990. Last year, he pulled in $1.6 million to fight the censorship complex that *he made up* -- double what he got the year before. These scam artists are raking it in.

🌱 We got an abandoned plot at a community garden and today was the first pass of clean-out day. We explained copperheads to the kids.

Most Americans now get their info from creators & podcasts where authenticity conveys legitimacy. Institutional credentials & polish can read as elite distance. What can institutions do? New Carnegie guide, by me, Rachel Kleinfeld & Margot Treadwell: carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Precision ad targeting

One year ago Rachel and I wrote a provocation about how institutions needed to rethink comms. Today we have a new report out that addresses the pressing question: “How?” Case studies of comms approaches within, from “Hot Girls for Zohran” to an analysis of the Turning Point USA juggernaut.

Good. No major religion objects to vaccines but they all object to liars. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

🌱 My 12yo grew these, dug ‘em up over the weekend, and cooked them tonight. Each kid gets to pick a thing to grow and he chose potatoes this year. First time we ever tried it. Kind of involved for the first week or two but then effortless.

“Like a soap bubble that vanishes with the touch of a hand,the “censorship–industrial complex” belongs to that mystical category of things that disappear when you examine them too closely.” Yet no matter how many times they lose in court or fail to deliver on document releases they keep pushing it.

X:”we found 200,000 Chinese inauthentic accounts, 200 posting about data centers.” Pols jump on this. But there’s no engagement data. No stats. No outside analysis. State Dept’s right-wing crusader call what X did a ‘welcome new approach.’ It isn’t. agentsofinfluence.substack.com/p/suddenly-f...

“The Power of Attorney Nobody Signed”. 🙄 so many corporate conference presentations are just AI slop at this point.

We collectively mocked Sarah Rogers for leaking to paranoid loon DataRepublian (who turned around and leaked the leak.) But what about what Rogers actually posted? Well, she somehow missed the fact that the actual primary source docs were released 3 years ago. And they don’t show any CenSoRShiP.