Renee DiResta on Disinformation and Misinformation From Vaccines to the GRU
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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For this episode of Lawfare’s Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Renee DiResta, the technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. Renee has done fascinating work on how technology platforms and algorithms interact with false and misleading narratives, ranging from misleading information on health issues to propaganda pushed by the Islamic State and the Russian government.
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| 0:32.6 | When we talk about the Internet Research Agency, we're talking about the medic propaganda. |
| 0:39.6 | We're talking about long-term multi-year influence. |
| 0:43.7 | We're talking about content that is inherently participatory. |
| 0:47.6 | The entire point of creating those memes is to get people to share them. |
| 0:51.8 | And so it's the very social first operation. |
| 0:55.1 | The entire goal is to create information, to create emotionally resonant content and |
| 1:01.6 | to make people want to share it. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm Quintet Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast, January 23, 2020. |
| 1:11.9 | It's another episode of LawFair's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation. |
| 1:16.8 | This week, Alina Polio-Cova and I spoke with Renee D'Arestra, the Technical Research |
| 1:21.6 | Manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. |
| 1:24.7 | Renee has done fascinating work on how technology platforms and algorithms interact with |
| 1:29.4 | false and misleading narratives, ranging from misleading information on health issues |
| 1:34.4 | to propaganda pushed by the Islamic State and the Russian government. |
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