Renee DiResta

🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown

✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic

📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com) —how influencers, algorithms, &online crowds shape public opinion

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2026-03-31 20:01:26 UTC

😱CORRECTIONS are CENSORSHIP. Requesting them is a CONSPIRACY.
Jacob Siegel of Tablet is extremely angry that I requested corrections of the materially wrong facts (lies) ab me/ my work that appeared in his 📖 & were echoed by unwitting reviewers. He is mad that they corrected. So he emailed me.
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2026-03-25 23:50:58 UTC

"The First Amendment isn’t fooled by synonyms, & what these lawsuits target is, inescapably, speech."
As soaring as this rhetoric is, platforms do more than passively host speech. Meta recommended tween accts to pervs, suggested they monetize, ignored harassment.
expression.fire.org/p/the-big-te...
The Big Tech verdicts you’re c...

2026-03-25 16:33:28 UTC

Read my article in Lawfare from Monday on the loser former AG/Senator of Missouri since it explains exactly this strategy: they care about framing and attention, not actual meaningful wins.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-li...
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2026-03-25 16:29:15 UTC

Live rent free in the heads of your enemies.
Hey Paul, use your alt to screenshot this. Be sure to DM it to Elon too: 3 plaintiffs can sue if 3 agencies try to censor them on 5 platforms.
That’s the participation trophy you losers are spinning as a win lol 🏆
Govt can still talk to platforms 🤷🏻‍♀️
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2026-03-25 02:43:50 UTC

It’s inexcusable in 2026 to make this claim. The author knew, and I’ll handle that separately. But the number of people who continue to fall for the Twitter Files hoax of some censorship complex — that CIA Renee ran, of course 😶‍🌫️ — is wild. reneediresta.substack.com/p/the-many-l...
The Many Lies of Andrew Lowent...

2026-03-25 00:23:17 UTC

Senator Eric Schmitt got a participation trophy and is declaring victory 😂
His injunction says that CISA, the CDC, and the Surgeon General can't censor the 3 plaintiffs on 5 platforms.
Government officials can still communicate with platforms, tell them content is wrong/false/misleading/harmful.🤷‍♀️
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2026-03-25 00:23:17 UTC

Eric Schmitt claiming victory even when he's a loser is a recurring theme. I wrote about it just yesterday, in fact. Read here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-li...
A Litigation Playbook for Narr...

2026-03-24 15:43:07 UTC

This stat seems pretty bad and really stark compared to other places
www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
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2026-03-24 03:01:12 UTC

My new review for Lawfare. I had fun writing this one and I hope you enjoy reading it.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-li...
A Litigation Playbook for Narr...

2026-03-24 03:01:12 UTC

Senator Eric Schmitt’s book "How To Beat The Left In Court" isn't ab law. It’s about using courts as stages for political spectacle. He brazenly lies about deposition testimony and omits losses. This is litigation as narrative warfare: the filing is the victory, truth is someone else’s problem.
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2026-03-22 16:40:44 UTC

This is how Mike lies. “Sweeping and sustained” literally meant they targeted MORE THAN 2016. I said *we* couldn’t tell impact on the election given data received—an assessment that he’s also lied ab the other way, claiming we said it swung the election. He doesn’t even bother keeping lies straight.
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2026-03-22 16:40:44 UTC

That Michael Shellenberger, chair of censorship hoaxes at a university that doesn’t care that he’s miseducating students, is a liar, shouldn’t surprise anyone by now. But it’s important to highlight HOW he lies and how he writes because every post is an object lesson in producing BS for money.

2026-03-22 16:40:44 UTC

Also, FB’s 126M estimates are *my* exaggeration 🙄. As to turning Americans into unwitting assets…Tenet Media?
In 2018 I advocated expanding threat hunting to include IO, & clarifying who in govt had responsibility to stop IRA-type activity. This triggered persistent Shellenbullshit ab “censorship”.
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2026-03-22 16:40:44 UTC

Michael Shellenberger, midwit, seems to have missed who’s been “hyping” foreign election interference and demanding censorship lately. 😂
Instead he once again wrote thousands of words ab my report on Russian interference, pretending it was “$100k of FB ads” rather than a $20M+ multiyear effort. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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2026-03-21 18:39:29 UTC

🌱 gardeningsky: can anyone explain why my hyacinths do this flopping thing? Is it too much shade? Old bulbs? Can I fix it? It happens every year and it’s basically immediately when they bloom.
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2026-03-21 18:39:29 UTC

In other news the azalea and hydrangeas are looking really rough and 1/3 of the raspberry canes died but everything else seems to have come back. I was picking the last big leaves off this sage for a dinner in December thinking there was no way it would last and here it is…
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2026-03-21 01:53:00 UTC

FBI and CISA issue joint warning of Russian phishing on Signal.
I got something just like this yesterday. Don’t accept random messages.
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2026-03-21 00:51:45 UTC

Appreciating my front row seat to this show. Pleased that our episode was noticed by all the right people.
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2026-03-21 00:51:45 UTC

Watch us here as we discuss Elon Musk, businessman, the SAVE Act, and other important topics.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PQnt...
The Real Election Threat: Tech...

2026-03-20 16:39:38 UTC

How the Iran war and resulting economic mess is actually Joe Biden’s fault, by Michael Shellenberger
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2026-03-20 14:45:35 UTC

Mike Benz’s fantasy has always been bullshit but pay attention: if Orbán loses this is how right wing populist liars are going to allege “The Steal” in Hungary. It was cEnSorShIp. Someone censored 22 miLlioN tWeEts, perhaps. 🙄
Frame Game preemptively framing events.
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2026-03-20 14:37:45 UTC

In early 2025, aides to JD Vance ordered a small office at the State Dept to document how European regulators were censoring online speech.
“We did not find anything,” said one of the ppl. “It was not politically convenient that we could not find anything."
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside the Trump administratio...

2026-03-19 21:18:18 UTC

Breaking: we are doing this stupid thing again.
Reminder that this is rooted in Tulsi Gabbard's baseless claim of a "treasonous coup" that never happened, which was wholly unsupported by material that she declassified.
www.axios.com/2026/03/19/c...
Comey subpoenaed in alleged "g...

2026-03-19 21:18:18 UTC

The hype doesn't match the evidence but they persist with the theatrics and efforts at "retribution" nonetheless.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...
From Russian Interference to R...

2026-03-15 16:24:41 UTC

Covid conspiracies are no longer keeping up the income stream for this prince of the intellectual dark web, so he’s going full Candace.
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2026-03-14 19:05:43 UTC

“Ahhh! Mom!! Look! It’s duck duck goose!” 🦆
We are hanging out by the Potomac since it’s a nice day. Two Canada geese just landed in the mix of mallards and the 5yo is losing her mind lol.

2026-03-14 14:38:07 UTC

ArXiv is hiring a CEO. This would be a cool gig for someone. Maybe someone awesome who got DOGE’d at one of the govt sciences orgs…
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...
Chief Executive Officer - New ...

2026-03-12 21:17:49 UTC

undefeated king of cope right here
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2026-03-09 15:57:47 UTC

Mike Benz — Frame Game — laying out his operating philosophy in his own voice.
A pathological liar who duped one rube after another. Matt Taibbi. Jacob Siegel. They legitimized him, then never walked back anything they wrote. Just quietly pretended they’d never taken him seriously as a source lol.
#nevent1q…2svf
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2026-03-09 15:19:37 UTC

Did you know the CIA & Army engaged in a shootout in Germany over servers that had the REAL vote count?
No bc it never happened. But “real vote count is on a server elsewhere” is the sort of thing you’re likely to hear again when they tell us voting machines are “suspect” to justify their EO.

2026-03-08 23:36:06 UTC

Playing a family game of Clue and the 5yo is contributing by periodically just yelling MUSTARD!!! like she’s Kendrick.

2026-03-08 19:01:15 UTC

“Don’t pick a fight with Jay please, Renee.” — the fight was “picked” in the opposite direction. They were afraid of him. And here we are.

2026-03-08 00:53:02 UTC

Kari Lake, incompetent and also unlawfully appointed? Happy Saturday night.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Judge rules Kari Lake unlawful...

2026-03-07 18:13:43 UTC

#Caturday. Behemoth squeezes himself into a box.
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2026-03-04 17:37:15 UTC

Good. More of this.
www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwe...
Tarot TikToker must pay $10M t...

2026-03-04 06:34:56 UTC

Lmfao the guy who isn’t an election denier and wasn’t endorsed by Trump lost.

2026-03-02 15:49:19 UTC

Update: it’s under the fridge. Alll the way under, behind a random kid’s toy.

2026-03-01 17:30:46 UTC

I got myself 3 little brooches for my bday. I really only wanted *one*—which I’d hunted for a year— but I was like, seller has good deals, why not. Treat yourself.
I left them on the counter overnight. Cats decided they were toys. The one I wanted has now been MIA for 24 hours. She hides things. 🫠
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2026-03-01 15:09:37 UTC

I wrote about them hacking his campaign in 2024 and have some history of their prior efforts in here. EIP’s websites also still have the operational analyses. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/iran...
Iran Hack Illuminates Long-Sta...

2026-02-28 18:49:34 UTC

Trump then issued a presidential memorandum targeting Krebs upon reelection because he refuses to say the 2020 election was “rigged and stolen” (it wasn’t)
#nevent1q…hr0c

2026-02-27 23:06:12 UTC

I pointed out his dad is 1.5 years younger and let him figure it out.

2026-02-27 23:05:15 UTC

My 12yo: “Mom are you a millennial?”
“Technically I’m born in the cutoff year but I identify as Gen X.”
“Ok cool, because I’m watching videos making fun of millennials. Wanna watch with me?”
Pulls up playlist that starts with “Top Ten Millennial Meltdowns”… 🫠

2026-02-26 22:28:11 UTC

I walked from Penn to east midtown down to Chinatown today and every block was clear and clean. Gorgeous day.

2026-02-26 22:27:14 UTC

Unambiguously the greatest American city. ❤️
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2026-02-25 01:01:14 UTC

This case was subsequently tossed by SCOTUS with a specific callout to "clearly erroneous" claims in *this decision*. The evidence was never there to justify any of it. But these articles kept harping on "researchers under attack" instead of dissecting what Bhattacharya et al claimed in their case.

2026-02-25 01:01:14 UTC

Working on a paper & came across this 2023 article written a day after Judge Terry Doughty *fabricated a quote* and attributed it to me in his Missouri v. Biden (/Murthy) opinion.
I wasn't asked for comment so I'm not in here "fretting" but damn, this framing lol.
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/b...
Disinformation Researchers Fre...

2026-02-24 23:21:32 UTC

I encountered Del Bigtree for the first time in 2016 in a movie theatre, when he was pushing Vaxxed. It was obvious then that he was a crazy extremist, as I started pointing out. They aren’t trying to hide it anymore. This is what you’re dealing with, parents.
You can’t be angry enough.
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2026-02-24 23:21:32 UTC

MAHA is a conspiratorial health populist movement. Yes some people came to it for the food dyes. But the antivax movement is the backbone and it always has been.
“Natural immunity” is a propaganda phrase for natural INFIRMITY - you got unnecessarily sick so that you don’t get sick again? Stupid. 🙄
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2026-02-24 23:21:32 UTC

Del Bigtree is more than anti-vaccine: He’s pro-infection, @tebartl reports. “I genuinely am upset that your kids are vaccinated, because it’s keeping my kids from getting chickenpox. It’s keeping my kids from getting measles,” Bigtree told Bartlett. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
‘I Genuinely Am Upset That You...

2026-02-23 01:04:25 UTC

All the best people lol
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2026-02-23 01:00:03 UTC

We all have to continue to suffer because this woman cheated on Sergey Brin
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
RFK Jr.’s billionaire running ...

2026-02-23 00:00:21 UTC

On the flipside though, adaptive learning was the only thing that made math class workable for him for a couple years because districts stupidly hate acceleration

2026-02-21 02:39:13 UTC

I’ve had a cold for the last couple days and have avoided close contact with the kids so as not to infect the whole house.
5yo just came up and said, “since it seems you don’t have the kind of disease where we will both die I think it’s ok for you to cuddle me again.” 🫠

2026-02-21 00:19:27 UTC

The people who lost their minds when State Dept misidentified accounts as Russian (& Twitter didnt take them down) have nothing to say ab the Administration demanding the deanonymizing of unambiguously American accounts critical of the Trump DHS…how can this be? 🤔
open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
What Are Heterodox Free Speech...

2026-02-20 15:36:24 UTC

It’s not a huge job, since it’s a first pass experimental effort at adding video content to an academic project — possibly more suited for someone supplementing or someone young. Happy to hire new grads or people earning money while in school!

2026-02-20 15:35:15 UTC

Q: I’m looking to hire a freelancer for some reels video content —editing mostly— and have never hired for this b4 so I’m not sure where to go. Upwork is where I’ve previously found random help but that’s been more piecemeal type stuff. I have a flat project budget. What is the best way to do this?

2026-02-20 02:33:55 UTC

If social media isn’t for mocking Bret Weinstein saying 9/11 was to cover up 9/11 what even is it for

2026-02-20 02:31:06 UTC

sorry guys new to social media my bad
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2026-02-20 00:22:42 UTC

Can you imagine tweeting this and not feeling stupid?
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2026-02-20 00:16:16 UTC

It’s been a while since I wrote about conspiracy theories but since Cenk Uygur took the Epstein drop and used it to justify becoming a 9/11 truther, I had to. The last two weeks saw the resurgence of Wayfair & Pizzagate— and those theories aren’t travelling as QAnon anymore, they’re everywhere.
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2026-02-20 00:16:16 UTC

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From Epstein to Everything

2026-02-09 16:49:44 UTC

21 hours, no community note, on mail-in ballot conspiracy theories debunked in 2020. Now boosted by Elon. They are arguing hard for eliminating them and laying the groundwork to delegitimize losses by way of them.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...
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2026-02-08 00:07:53 UTC

Make RIGHT WING media demand a public hearing.

2026-01-31 15:55:49 UTC

I visited X but somehow the big QAnon influencers haven’t started to reckon with the fact that it was projection all along…

2026-01-31 14:16:27 UTC

One favorite thing ab parenting at the moment is my 5yo racing into our room when she wakes, climbing into bed, and starting in full speed on some theory she’s thinking about or a story we need to know. After 20 min she wanders off to make herself cereal or play w/her sister & I go back to sleep.

2026-01-31 00:06:55 UTC

Thanks to @jtlg.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy for some comments he made on an earlier thread I wrote about this that clarified some of my thinking. Not sure he’ll agree with what I wrote but I appreciated his framing. :)

2026-01-30 00:39:02 UTC

The Twitter Files made up fake CIA operations that never happened. Watch how quiet those degenerate liars stay about their friend being deployed for a domestic “investigation” into election “fraud” that never happened.

2026-01-26 19:02:01 UTC

*issue. I’m on a plane with shitty WiFi and don’t feel like reposting.

2026-01-20 23:34:58 UTC

They’re double stuff. She’s getting one.

2026-01-10 03:11:55 UTC

Lawyers what happens next lol

2026-01-08 02:43:57 UTC

Some wannabe sleuth did a Yandex reverse image search with an AI generated face and was like “oh here’s a name…”

2025-12-31 20:06:24 UTC

The daycare rumors have the esoteric bureaucratic aspects of election rumors: a bunch of centers & loans, some w/real problems that can be used to undermine the whole enterprise. People can help influencers investigate “suspicious” figures/loans from their 🛋️, though they don’t have all the details.

2025-12-28 18:58:43 UTC

Nothing like having to pay strangers to vet the story of how a bunch of bullshit artists smeared you while those fuckers just keep raking in their sweet Substack bucks and “journalism awards” as you keep getting death threats from the angry people they’ve lied to. Very normal system.

2025-12-28 02:04:11 UTC

The “tradwives” whose names you recognize are careerists.

2025-12-28 01:55:34 UTC

From a compilation standpoint the David Lynch’s “Lost Highway”soundtrack was very very good.

2025-12-26 04:00:23 UTC

Techdirt and Tech Policy Press, too. Tech media understands what’s happening here. The commentary on Threads was very solid also. It’s frustrating to see major pubs struggle to connect the dots.

2025-12-24 23:35:50 UTC

Accidentally opened up a $30 bottle of NA dealcoholized wine which I keep around for guests who don’t drink and…I’m committed now but also disappointed. 🫠

2025-12-23 20:17:55 UTC

I want to be very clear here: these lying sacks of shit accused me and others of “censorship” for studying the Big Lie, and vaccine narratives, on social media. Taibbi etc denounced us in a Jim Jordan heading, and it led to years of subpoenas and lawsuits. That’s all it takes to be found “guilty”.

2025-12-22 17:42:31 UTC

Not a judgement; not my business how people spend their money or what work they get done. But when I went exploring for solutions for a post-pregnancy thing I didn't like after baby 3 it was markedly different marketing vs after baby 1. The cultural shift over that 10 years was surprising.

2025-12-21 14:29:23 UTC

So yes it would be nice for keeping score to work again but the reality is by that metric MSM has outperformed right wing influencers significantly on the issues they care about — and issued corrections when it’s been wrong — and that’s an untenable state of affairs for their political project.

2025-12-21 04:57:39 UTC

Also 12yo boys appreciate pranks. Or least ours does.

2025-12-20 16:08:49 UTC

Second screenshot in my post above btw is from Grok (chat interface). It explains the situation well. Pulls from 40 sources — incl right wing media just complaining ab the controversy (the audience would want that). The Grok info isn’t getting incorporated into the convo well here either.

2025-12-16 23:52:05 UTC

Rumors sometimes turn out to be true. But they often destroy lives. And what increasingly happens on X is that the rumor mill and propaganda machine overlap — claims that “OSINT accounts” or randos make are boosted by massive monetized political influencers, or even politicians themselves. Or Musk.

2025-12-15 05:17:15 UTC

I had a really nice weekend: a block party, one kid’s 🎻 recital, another kid’s 🎹 & voice recital (she’s a trip — shy IRL, but a *performer* on a stage), actually getting the ornaments on the 🎄, and a fun date night to a debate where after we found a great Puerto Rican restaurant. Felt v lucky.

2025-12-15 02:48:40 UTC

Well you also don’t have to put PII in DBs anymore. That has also improved. So question is also what kind of verifiers will be used.

2025-12-14 19:02:41 UTC

But this was not remotely symmetric. I saw people on the left suggest HCR issue a correction related to that groyper mess. I haven’t seen any right wing media who boosted Taibbi & Shellenberger correct the record about what they did.

2025-12-14 19:01:38 UTC

Ironically I had one extremely weird experience on Threads w/the diehard HCR fandom: she & I both posted something ab Gish Gallops around the Presidential debate. I posted first lol but got deluged w/fans accusing me of “plagiarizing” her newsletter. Parasocial obsessives are everywhere these days.

2025-12-12 15:56:29 UTC

(My quick exported clip there wound up with bad positioning of subtitles, sorry.)

2025-12-11 17:13:24 UTC

Remember when that app Rednote was a thing for a hot second? Anyone stay on it?

2025-12-10 16:56:32 UTC

Midwit Mike Shellenberger - University of Austin professor - still calls me an “ostensibly former CIA fellow” when he writes nutty shit about me lol

2025-12-08 20:57:45 UTC

This account, btw, which was instrumental in destroying USAID and building up a range of conspiracy theories, is one of the top 3 most subscribed to on X.

2025-12-02 00:32:25 UTC

You know, if that hotel room rendezvous had happened we would all be much better off right now.

2025-12-01 19:54:07 UTC

Yes, it was originally used by foreign powers like Russia and China and other authoritarians to allege that the CIA was behind protests in their sphere of influence. But the MAGA fringe has now alleged for years that the CIA and now USAID secretly ran “treasonous domestic color revolutions” here.

2025-11-20 06:05:27 UTC

If want to keep punishing me with a screenshot, go right ahead, be that shitty media person — because per the rest, no, I do not feel sympathy over freeloaders not getting “defended” by people who took the pro-social risk we all took for community in 2021

2025-11-20 05:49:27 UTC

You’re a random asshole on bluesky posting anonymously and quote tweeting me to try to start a pile-on and I mean this sincerely: you can go fuck yourself. I’m really tired of people like you.

2025-11-19 12:52:47 UTC

Freeloaders on the front page of the Free Press

2025-11-16 19:33:29 UTC

This newsletter pulls a few things together, including my Atlantic essay on working the referees, and @mantzarlis.com@bsky.brid.gy’s fantastic new analysis on what exactly is in Grokipedia.

2025-11-12 15:30:37 UTC

My favorite story ab my kid in preschool is that they suspended him for leading a mutiny on a playground trip. He told the others there were more of them than teachers so they didn't actually have to line up & leave bc the teachers wouldn't be able to round them all up. Some kids are challenging.

2025-11-11 10:13:43 UTC

*former RT anchor. Former. Wouldn’t want to impugn her journalistic independence in any way.

2025-11-08 23:36:49 UTC

I spent a lot of time reading old Coughlin docs and press clippings for book research hoping there would be some more satisfying solution but it really was a combo of govt revoking his newsletter's second-class mailing privileges for print propaganda, and then overwhelmingly in-group Church action.