Renée DiResta | The Invisible Rulers Turning Lies Into Reality
Publicado 2024-06-20
Renée DiResta, a writer and former researcher with Stanford’s Internet Observatory, comes to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to share her research into the way power and influence have been profoundly transformed, how a virtual rumor mill of niche propagandists increasingly shapes public opinion. She says that while propagandists position themselves as trustworthy Davids, their reach, influence, and economics make them classic Goliaths—invisible rulers who create bespoke realities to revolutionize politics, culture, and society. Their work is driven by a simple maxim: if you make it trend, you make it true.
By revealing the machinery and dynamics of the interplay between influencers, algorithms, and online crowds, DiResta vividly illustrates the way propagandists deliberately undermine belief in the fundamental legitimacy of institutions that make society work. This alternate system for shaping public opinion, unexamined until now, is rewriting the relationship between the people and their government in profound ways. It has become a force so shockingly effective that its destructive power can seem limitless. Scientific proof is often powerless in front of it. Democratic validity is bulldozed by it. Leaders are humiliated by it.
But they need not be. Join us as DiResta not only predicts the consequences of these online propagandists but offers ways for leaders to rapidly adapt and fight back.
Photo by Bill Wadman.
June 17, 2024
Speakers
Renée DiResta
Former Technical Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory; Author, Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
In Conversation with Quentin Hardy
Independent Technology Journalist
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My heart is breaking for you. Respect for the courage it took to answer that brutal question, and kudos for the grace in your response. You ring my truth bell.
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Fraud is a crime. Deliberately lying to the public is a fraudulent activity and should be prosecuted.
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A less flattering word for "influencer" is "shill".
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Most impressive. The advent of the printing press in Fleet Street 500 years ago saw a cast of heroes and villains emerge, sadly reminiscent of today’s lot.
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Totally fascinating content and discussion! I am looking for more of Renee DiResta now
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4:10 A base foundational way to understand why propaganda in all its forms works is that a human being lives their life through the identification of thought. By that I mean we derive everything we know based in the thoughts we know and have come to internalize since birth. Imagine a baby at birth, does baby think? If so what thoughts and how would their brains decipher language let alone a concept? Why does a baby come to be a persona? Its through conditioning. We as conditioned humans have lost sight of the self. That self is the presenc within the newborn that cannot think yet however what enables thinking is wholly present at all times and there in the newborn. Through life we become absorbed into thought and the line between thought and ourselves becomes part and parcel regarding all phenomenon that awareness picks up. Ourselves is identical within all of us. One could view that common thread within all of us as the spark of divinity that is lost on the individuated awareness lost in a world of mind. Recognizing we derive identity through the illusion of changing thought can help us refocus our attention inward. The notion that attention is directional isn't known by most because we don't think of it as being something separate from us that we can manipulate. Like the lady who focuses her attention outside of herself to better understand anti vax dis information through all kinds of nodes or social structure she can also focus attention and subsequent awareness within herself. To do this all you do is obtain a state where you are aware that you are aware. This attention placed upon yourself focuses attention back towards the Self that is all of us. The singular thought or state that is achieved when attention is turned inward is identical in every human being the world over. This is the direction of source or the divine spark within us all and is the same. The Tao Te Ching calls this the doorway to all understanding which seems counter intuitive given this state of meditation where the self is perpetually realized is a thoughtless state to the extent our attention is willed towards itself. As time goes by the recognition of this deeper sense of self grows within is as an awareness of it being our source stands upon its own and becomes a constant part of our life. In this way energy is literally given back to ourselves and not outward towards thoughts and feelings we used to derive our sense of self In short not a single person alive can derive a solid point where they exist more or less because the essence of your awareness is the reality that you are the un manifest knowing manifestation. Its all you but as life occurs we come to know life and grow in awareness and understanding through the process of life. Currently our definition of self as we seek to know it is an amalgamation of thoughts and feelings that describe ourself but aren't the self any more than an eye can see itself. Hope that helps.
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Social media feeds the informed as well as the uninformed. It’s perfect for quacks of all shades .
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The recent book is a terrific read. I really wondered how all this crazy disinformation comes from and why it is so popular and she gives a comprehensive overview of media, social media and the long history of propaganda.
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Excellent discussion.
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It’s not really real though, it’s delusion. You can’t make something false true! You can manipulate or distort but real stays real. Just my opinion
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Have you a suggested dailyreading list of reliable sources.
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Fox entertainment and alternative facts we report you decide 😂
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'Tweeter' is the worst idea in the world.
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Free press isnt free. 😢
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It's really admirable work, but the interpretation is AWFUL, and her laugh is an absolute turn off. In an ideal world this wouldn't matter. But we don't live in an ideal world.
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A new software: Nudgeware.
