Renee DiResta

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🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown ✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost) 📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻‍♀️Twitter Files supervillain

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"Fauci Labelled Me a "Totally Weird Person" and Other Revelations From His Private Diary and Personal Emails" by Paul Thacker, crank.
A list of trending topics on Facebook like “Justin Timberlake” that have no context whatsoever. Facebook taking away the context is what I was remarking on
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The Censorship Industrial Complex is holding a conference. I can't imagine a more Orwellian name for it than "TrustCon." Their entire project rests on one belief: you cannot be trusted to hear the truth and decide for yourself. Now they're plotting how to censor you again.
Hint for you: no honest person pleads the Fifth X.com Josh Hawley & @HawleyMO• 3h I asked Fauci basic questions: What day of the week is it today? What color tie are you wearing? What color is the carpet in front of you?...
Musk's SpaceX tumbles back to Earth, dragging Tesla stock down with it After a record-setting IPO last month, SpaceX's honeymoon is over. Investors in companies led by Elon Musk, who has lost his trillionaire status, want to see results.
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The United States has now recorded more cases of measles in 2026 than in any other year since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, a grim sign that the country may be headed toward a new era in which the disease regularly sickens thousands every year. On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that there have been 2,318 confirmed cases of measles so far this year. The case count toppled the record set
Tim Pool @Timcast X.com HOLY SHIT Trump says intel shows China paid US journalists to write negative stories about the Trump administration
Jesse Rodriguez @JesseRodriguez More from MS NOW: President Trump plans to deliver a Thursday evening speech addressing newly declassified intelligence reports that the White House asserts reveal plans by foreign nations to interfere in the 2020 election, according to two White House officials granted anonymity to discuss internal plans. @jake_traylor ...
Two substantial technological advances have reshaped the public square in recent decades: first, the advent of the internet and second, the recent introduction of large language models (LLMs). LLMs offer opportunities to reimagine and redesign more decentralized, participatory online spaces that can be used to facilitate deliberative dialogues at scale, but LLMs without proper governance can also exacerbate societal schisms. Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems. Building on the input from over 70 civil society experts and technologists, we argue that LLMs both afford promising opportunities to shift the paradigm for conversations at scale and pose distinct risks for digital public squares. Given that people are shaped through their interactions in public squares, there is an important opportunity to build individual capacities and collective cohesion by transforming these digital public spaces. We lay out an agenda for future research and investments in AI that will strengthen digital public squares and safeguard against potential misuses of AI.
Trump takes on builder in chief role at WhiteHouse Yesterday Trump aimed to finish these projects by July 4. Many are not done. 6 hours ago
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Case 3:23-cv-00571-TAD-KDM Document 219 5979 Filed 07/01/26 Page 1 of 23 PagelD #: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA MONROE DIVISION JILL HINES ET AL VERSUS ALEX STAMOS ET AL CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571 JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D. MCCLUSKY MEMORANDUM RULING Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos, Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition [Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209]. For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED. I. BACKGROUND This case is before the Court on limited remand to determine jurisdiction. Hines v. Stamos, 111 F.4th 551 (5th Cir. 2024); see also [Doc. No. 112]. On May 2,
Renee DiResta sure got upset by the "CIA Renee" label, yet here she's jumping all over DNI Tulsi Gabbard for exposing CIA problems. It does make you wonder why Renee DiResta constantly plays intel expert, yet freaks when people note her close ties to intel agencies.
@nypost 18h Elon Musk 'needs to answer' for 4.5M kids 'sentenced to death' over DOGE cuts, Ro Khanna argues trib.al/kpVbfOR •.. O2.1k 17697 3.5K ill 2.2M Elon Musk Y @elonmusk X Time to sue this liar
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After explaining all the reasons she might not have delivered for "our gay and trans siblings, Raman collapsed in tears. "I hope you know," she said, hand over heart, "that everything, every person in this room is fighting for in this campaign has been about building a city that's worthy of you!
Hilton Beats Steyer to Win Second Spot in California Governor Race
Bobby Allyn ® @BobbyAllyn ... NEW: Kalshi now says it prohibits paid creators from calling into question the integrity or accuracy of an election, legal ruling or official determination in connection with an election. It follows Kalshi cracking down on paid affiliates who were spreading misinformation about California's election. Polymarket has not responded to questions about whether it is acting on paid affiliates amplifying election misinfo, nor if it has any rules against it. 1:51 PM • Jun 8, 2026 • 22.3K
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Rep. Anna Paulina... @RepLuna Follow The US gov sends billions to California to subsidize their failed policies. It is time we STOP until they clean up their shady election process. 9:40 PM • Jun 7, 2026 • 323.3K
Decision De... @DecisionD...•38m S... Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary #DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT Los Angeles
Hunter Biden @HunterBiden X.com Ha. No. So the "laptop" was never just a laptop. They hacked my could and there were several stolen devices. The legally blind (I kid you not) repair shop guy turned over a hard drive to Rudy and his lawyer. They (among others) then used that data l believe to hack into my cloud. They cobbled all of the disparate data together, organized it in sinisterly labeled folders and then distributed it first piecemeal through the NY Post and then ultimately put everything on the internet. Over 29 years of my digital footprint. I'd argue it the most egregious violation of privacy in modern politics. What they found was evidence of a man who suffered for a period of time from a severe addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol. What they did not find was anything to do with Bribery or foreign corruption or any crime aotside of those related to my drug use. Short answer I don't have "the laptop " - the whole world does and they've had it for 7 years
a_hobbits_library 2h Hunter "big balls" Biden has entered the chat r rinda connelly @connelly_r68279 X.com Visibility limited: this Post may violate X's rules against Violent Speech. Learn more How about you go away forever. You should be hung by your teeny tiny balls 12:37 PM • 6/4/26 • 17K Views Relevant v Hunter Biden @HunterBiden • 10h I think there is ample evidence online that at least part of the statement is verifiably false.
Stefan Smith ® @TheStefa... • 3h O A lot of this Biden stuff is money. Leaving office, the offers weren't there for him. The speaking engagements, board offers, and other lucrative deals didn't materialize. The Biden book tours aren't just settling scores, they need the cash. © 79 {722 O187 Il 86.4K 贝 Hunter Biden • @HunterBiden Replying to @TheStefanSmith You caught them. Mom and Dad were going to sell bibles and cell phones, golden sneakers, and NFTs, Chinese watches and cologne but wouldn't you know someone beat them to the punch. They were left with only one choice write two books like every former First Lady and President has done in modern history.
RonDeSantis: California keeps dumping votes. Odds are shifting because the vote dumps always seem to go one way. Count until you get the result you want? [Polymarket screenshot]
After 2016, mainstream journalists increasingly collaborated with partisan activists. A month before the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, Aspen Digital ran a tabletop exercise called "The Burisma Leak," organized by the former NPR and Times executive Vivian Schiller. Aspen gathered national security reporters from the Times and the Post, a news standards executive from CNN, the editor of The Daily Beast, and the security chiefs of Twitter and Facebook to rehearse how to handle a leak that had not yet happened, and that Aspen likely had learned about from the FBI. When the real story landed, the participants followed the script, treating the true story - that the laptop indeed showed a vast Biden family influence-peddling scheme — as probable Russian disinformation.
PUBLIC Why Liberal Journalists Are So Arrogant Elite television reporters including Dan Rather, Katie Couric, and Chuck Todd have been repeatedly caught misrepresenting facts and then denying they did so MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER TODAY AT 4:52 PM
Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC Follow 5... While I appreciate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's statement that the proposed weaponization fund will not be moving forward, I am still of the firm belief that there are many victims of the weaponized Biden Justice Department throughout this country. To suggest nothing happened and that the Biden DOJ did not weaponize the law against Americans is inaccurate. However, creating a new system that is untested is problematic. Therefore, 1 am proposing that we create a weaponization fund that will be available to those who can prove their claim against the federal government through the Federal Tort Claims Act. We have a legal system already in place for people to make claims against the government. That does not need to be reinvented. However, it is imperative
I'm working on a story and need comment back from you by Monday. The last time I sent you questions, you didn't respond and then put the email on Twitter like onstage at a comedy club. To provide you with additional support on professional behavior, I've looped in Stanford's comms office. Hello Paul, It is true that the last time you sent me a ridiculous email, I posted it to social media; I'll be doing that with this one as well despite your tactic of ccing Stanford colleagues to try to exert control. To answer your questions: 1) Can you please explain again what you did during your time at New Knowledge? You can read my public interviews about it. 2) What was your total involvement in the Alabama Project and/or Project Birmingham as was reported by The New York Times and The Washington Post? You can read the quotes I gave in said reporting by the New York Times and Washington Post when the articles came out five years ago. Since you've no doubt done your homework, you know I didn't work there at the time, didn't run any fake pages or accounts, and didn't have my account taken down by Facebook (which is what happened to those who did.
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"In the alternate universe inhabited by The Federalist et al, the settlement is proof of a ''''Censorship Industrial Complex'''. In the universe where the earth is round and vaccines don't cause autism, what happened is more mundane: a plaintiff once again couldn't prove the Censorship Complex theory in a courtroom, so the DOJ cited a Trump executive order as justification, and wrote a check."
GOP senator who voted to convict Trump in impeachment trial loses primary Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana failed to make the runoff in his GOP Senate primary five years after his vote to convict Donald Trump, which led the president to call for his ouster.
F.D.A. Commissioner Marty Makary Resigns After Weeks of Pressure The agency's top food official will step in as acting commissioner, after Dr. Makary's tumultuous run as the nation's top food, drug, tobacco and medical device regulator.
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The Daily Wire case, which alleged that the State Department had leveraged third-party groups to censor conservative speech, was cut short at an earlier stage of the proceedings. Although the parties were engaged in discovery and the plaintiffs survived a motion to dismiss, the court never ruled on an injunction or the merits. The plaintiffs' ambitious theory-that the State Department's funding and promotion of private firms' foreign counter-disinformation work made the government legally responsible for those firms' later domestic media ratings labeling The Daily Wire and The Federalist unreliable-remained untested.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump + Palestinian Chuck Schumer is hiring Eric Holder, famous for handing guns to Mexican cartels under the Barack Hussein Obama administration, as part of a Democrat-led "Election Integrity Group" that will no doubt try to suppress Republican voters, and interfere in our Elections. Furthermore, Marc Elias, a terrible lawyer with a horrible track record, is also involved. This is the same disgusting individual who was responsible for the fake Russia dossier from a foreign nation to meddle in the 2016 Election, which I won in historic fashion. The Democrats are totally unhinged and we will not allow them to threaten the integrity of our Elections. During my Historic Election in 2024, when I won every single Swing State, and decisively won both the Electoral and Popular votes by wide margins, the Republicans had an Election Integrity Army in every single State to preserve the sanctity of each legal vote. We will be doing the same again in 2026, but it will be much bigger and stronger. All Americans should have their voices be heard by casting a vote. Be assured this Election will be fair! President DONALD J. TRUMP 674 ReTruths 2.05k Likes May 10, 2026, 2:42 PM
Marty Makary's FDA Has All the Right Enemies The FDA is rebuilding trust, not suppressing 'science. By The Editors 05.06.26 -U.S. Politics U.S. Politics く Breaking news, deep investigations, and eye-opening con FOLLOW TOPIC A
Spinning Settlements Into Proof Storytelling is the point here. Eric Schmitt, Missouri's former attorney general and now a U.S. senator, took a victory lap after the Murthy decree announcement, framing it as vindication of the coercion theory the Supreme Court had declined to credit. He has long emphasized the importance of legal cases in telling a preferred story, leveraging them for narrative warfare regardless of whether he wins or loses. The current Missouri AG illustrates how this works in practice: her press release claimed that "the consent decree acknowledges that: The Biden Administration censored social media posts 'about COVID-19, the Hunter Biden laptop report, and the 2020 Presidential election." It does not. The decree's text recites what plaintiffs alleged in their complain - citing back to plaintiffs' own pleadings-about events that, for two of three items, predate the Biden Administration entirely. But in both cases, a wider ecosystem quickly moved to lock in a similar narrative: Daily Wire and Federalist triumphalism, Fox News coverage, New York Post stories, Matt Taibbi video interviews. The New Civil Liberties Alliance crowed about a "fatal blow" to the "censorship industrial complex." All treated the decrees as legal confirmation that the "Biden censorship regime" had finally been exposed and taken down. Wikipedia entries for Murthy v. Missouri, the Twitter Files, and related articles were promptly edited to frame the settlements as suhstantive adjudications