376: Influencer, Algorithm, Crowd — With Renée DiResta

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 (https://tinyurl.com/y66h4us5) Influencers, Bullshitters, and How We Lost a Shared Reality (https://tinyurl.com/2bc8am93) Renée DiResta at Politics and Prose (DC), June 13 (https://tinyurl.com/pm4cvaya) Renée DiResta at the Commonwealth Club (SF), June 17 (https://tinyurl.com/h62tkb3p) The New Media Goliaths (Noema) (https://tinyurl.com/29p7rjxr) Agents of Influence newsletter (https://tinyurl.com/44zstpty) Tech Policy Podcast 293: The Supply of Renée DiResta Should Be Infinite (https://tinyurl.com/59k265aa)