Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta
The Checkup with Doctor Mike
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 118 minutes
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11:00 Bot Accounts
34:00 Getting More Experts Online
45:20 Parasocial Relationships
57:01 Jubilee's Surrounded
1:04:30 My Videos vs. Public Health Orgs
1:22:49 Joe Rogan / Election Interference
1:34:29 Fired From Stanford
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| 0:00.0 | Attention. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, hang on. |
| 0:04.0 | Attention. |
| 0:05.0 | Rail travellers, platform paces, window gazers and armrest negotiators. |
| 0:10.0 | Have you heard? |
| 0:12.0 | The big railfare freeze is here. |
| 0:14.0 | Railfares have been frozen across England until March 2027 on standard class tickets, |
| 0:20.0 | including off-peak, anytime, and season tickets. |
| 0:23.4 | For more information, visit nationalorail.com.uk-fers-frees. |
| 0:28.3 | Teas and season exclusions apply. |
| 0:30.2 | Do you remember eating the pets? |
| 0:33.2 | A lot of towns don't want to talk about it because they're so embarrassed by it. |
| 0:37.2 | In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats. |
| 0:43.3 | It was a rumor, right, that started on Facebook, that made its way to Twitter. |
| 0:46.3 | One of the reasons that it blew up in the way it did was that it had that blend of, like, weirdness, right, that just lent itself to content creation. |
| 0:59.9 | The power of it gets missed, I think, a lot of the time. People think of it as just something that |
| 1:04.9 | happens online and stays online, but it doesn't know. It becomes a lot bigger. |
| 1:08.2 | Welcome back to the Cheka podcast. Today's guest is Renee DeResta, a professor at Georgetown University who specializes in |
| 1:15.4 | adversarial abuses online or ways that people attempt to manipulate, harass, and target others |
| 1:22.7 | on digital platforms. |
| 1:24.2 | She got on my radar last year after I learned her contract was not renewed as the managing researcher for the Stanford Internet Observatory. |
| 1:31.3 | The department had been specifically studying U.S. election interference and ways to mitigate the spread of misinformation on social media. |
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