Renee DiResta
@noupside.bsky.social
🌐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
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com) —how influencers, algorithms, &online crowds shape public opinion
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
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Renee DiResta
@noupside.bsky.social
· Apr 15
New from me: an essay on the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and its remarkable 30 year history of witch hunts & blacklists.
It chronicles the progression of how industries & academia went from capitulation to defiance,& what we can take from that today
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
It chronicles the progression of how industries & academia went from capitulation to defiance,& what we can take from that today
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...
Stick to avocado toast ffs
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Stick to avocado toast ffs
it’s interesting to see how they frame these things because they still get so much engagement on Facebook and places like that.
Several paragraphs in, far past that headline, you get to this:
nypost.com/2026/02/07/h...
Several paragraphs in, far past that headline, you get to this:
nypost.com/2026/02/07/h...
February 10, 2026 at 9:10 PM
it’s interesting to see how they frame these things because they still get so much engagement on Facebook and places like that.
Several paragraphs in, far past that headline, you get to this:
nypost.com/2026/02/07/h...
Several paragraphs in, far past that headline, you get to this:
nypost.com/2026/02/07/h...
Spoiler: it didn’t
February 10, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Spoiler: it didn’t
This seems unlikely to work but should be interesting?
Dinking around in the St. Clair v. xAI docket, I found that xAI is indeed raising Section 230 as a defense to liability for Grok's bikini pics, as previewed in its opposition to a PI. ("Does 230 apply to gen AI outputs?" is a Q courts haven't answered yet.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum of Law in Opposition – #17 in St. Clair v. X.AI Holdings Corp. (S.D.N.Y., 1:26-cv-00386) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OF LAW in Opposition re: 7 Proposed Order to Show Cause With Emergency Relief, . Document filed by X.AI Holdings Corp...(Shuster, Michael) (Entered: 01/21/2026)
storage.courtlistener.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
This seems unlikely to work but should be interesting?
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New @scalinglaws.bsky.social episode: @noupside.bsky.social and I talk to @dgrand.bsky.social about his research showing AI chatbots can shift people's political beliefs. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scal...
Scaling Laws: The Persuasion Machine: David Rand on How LLMs Can Reshape Political Beliefs
www.lawfaremedia.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:39 PM
New @scalinglaws.bsky.social episode: @noupside.bsky.social and I talk to @dgrand.bsky.social about his research showing AI chatbots can shift people's political beliefs. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scal...
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existential cookie message from the olympics website
February 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
existential cookie message from the olympics website
Maybe she can sort out the 30,000 decline in that subscriber number.
February 10, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Maybe she can sort out the 30,000 decline in that subscriber number.
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Matt Taibbi announces his site is rebooting under the eye of new editor Emily Kopp, most recently an investigative reporter at the Daily Caller
February 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Matt Taibbi announces his site is rebooting under the eye of new editor Emily Kopp, most recently an investigative reporter at the Daily Caller
If you make it trend, you make it true
Holy shit—a terrible waste of $$
Bhattacharya is so kooky
“If lots of people believe it & it’s moving public health, we as NIH have an obligation, again, to treat it seriously,” Bhattacharya said at a MAHA event
Great reporting by @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Bhattacharya is so kooky
“If lots of people believe it & it’s moving public health, we as NIH have an obligation, again, to treat it seriously,” Bhattacharya said at a MAHA event
Great reporting by @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
US Cancer Institute Studying Ivermectin’s ‘Ability To Kill Cancer Cells’ - KFF Health News
At a January event organized by allies of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Cancer Institute Director Anthony Letai said results may be released “in a few months.” Ivermectin, used to d...
kffhealthnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:43 PM
If you make it trend, you make it true
Some of the original (with one of my fav dancers) for contrast youtube.com/shorts/a04Qx...
Capjay to Yukon was a masterclass in improvisation! 🔥🔥🔥
YouTube video by stance
youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Some of the original (with one of my fav dancers) for contrast youtube.com/shorts/a04Qx...
I just caught the Justin Bieber Grammys 2026 performance of Yukon and it’s really something. The original is lovely but so pitched it didn’t sound like him. This semi-unplugged version with a looper made me think about a return to unambiguously human talent in an AI era.
youtu.be/Y_aan-2Gqjs?...
youtu.be/Y_aan-2Gqjs?...
Justin Bieber Live at the Grammy 2026 #Yukon🥰🎶
YouTube video by Its Savagery
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 5:03 AM
I just caught the Justin Bieber Grammys 2026 performance of Yukon and it’s really something. The original is lovely but so pitched it didn’t sound like him. This semi-unplugged version with a looper made me think about a return to unambiguously human talent in an AI era.
youtu.be/Y_aan-2Gqjs?...
youtu.be/Y_aan-2Gqjs?...
He’s so great. The show was so much fun. :)
February 10, 2026 at 4:56 AM
He’s so great. The show was so much fun. :)
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Reached out to Ed Martin to ask if he'd comprehended that this was satire, and asked him whether he's even seen Arrested Development before. Will report back if he responds.
February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Reached out to Ed Martin to ask if he'd comprehended that this was satire, and asked him whether he's even seen Arrested Development before. Will report back if he responds.
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...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...
February 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...
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This is absolutely untrue. For more than a decade, Kennedy campaigned against vaccines, as @vermontgmg.bsky.social reported in @longlead.com’s LONG SHADOW podcast.
Listen to this episode, featuring @noupside.bsky.social’s fight against his antivax efforts as far back as 2013, for the full context:
Listen to this episode, featuring @noupside.bsky.social’s fight against his antivax efforts as far back as 2013, for the full context:
Long Shadow podcast: Breaking the Internet
Journalist Garrett Graff hosts season 4 of Long Shadow, a podcast produced by Long Lead. The series chronicles the evolution of the internet.
longshadowpodcast.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:42 PM
This is absolutely untrue. For more than a decade, Kennedy campaigned against vaccines, as @vermontgmg.bsky.social reported in @longlead.com’s LONG SHADOW podcast.
Listen to this episode, featuring @noupside.bsky.social’s fight against his antivax efforts as far back as 2013, for the full context:
Listen to this episode, featuring @noupside.bsky.social’s fight against his antivax efforts as far back as 2013, for the full context:
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In 2023 @enirenberg.bsky.social & I wrote about RFK Jr's role in the deadly measles outbreak in Samoa (time.com/6289037/robe...)
Turns out, Samoa was a trial run for the horrific, deadly anti-vaxx activism he's now inflicting worlwide 😔
Thx to @bymichellersmith.com & colleagues for their reporting
Turns out, Samoa was a trial run for the horrific, deadly anti-vaxx activism he's now inflicting worlwide 😔
Thx to @bymichellersmith.com & colleagues for their reporting
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that his trip to Samoa in 2019 ahead of a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines.”
But records obtained by @theguardian.com + @apnews.com — stemming from a FOIA lawsuit filed by @rcfp.org attorneys on the outlets' behalf — tell a different story.
But records obtained by @theguardian.com + @apnews.com — stemming from a FOIA lawsuit filed by @rcfp.org attorneys on the outlets' behalf — tell a different story.
Newly revealed emails undermine RFK Jr testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of measles outbreak
Kennedy later said the purpose of his trip had nothing to do with vaccines. US embassy and UN staff at the time said otherwise, emails show
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:57 PM
In 2023 @enirenberg.bsky.social & I wrote about RFK Jr's role in the deadly measles outbreak in Samoa (time.com/6289037/robe...)
Turns out, Samoa was a trial run for the horrific, deadly anti-vaxx activism he's now inflicting worlwide 😔
Thx to @bymichellersmith.com & colleagues for their reporting
Turns out, Samoa was a trial run for the horrific, deadly anti-vaxx activism he's now inflicting worlwide 😔
Thx to @bymichellersmith.com & colleagues for their reporting
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BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
February 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
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“Epstein class” is good framing
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 8, 2026 at 3:08 AM
“Epstein class” is good framing
I don’t know! I did see that. But it’s not like they care about competence.
February 8, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I don’t know! I did see that. But it’s not like they care about competence.
Yup. I did draft this post as part of a broader recap of every foreign conspiracy theory we saw in 2020…
(FWIW Ed Martin just got axed — ppl initially expected it to be him, not Tulsi! Bc you know, DNI not supposed to be involved in domestic investigations and all that.)
bsky.app/profile/noup...
(FWIW Ed Martin just got axed — ppl initially expected it to be him, not Tulsi! Bc you know, DNI not supposed to be involved in domestic investigations and all that.)
bsky.app/profile/noup...
I also think this has a very real chance of occurring.
Media should be considering explainers on why there’s no universe where Maduro rigged the election bc this is one of those rumors that’s built up lore for years in bespoke realities, & normies may register it as a “shocking revelation”.
Media should be considering explainers on why there’s no universe where Maduro rigged the election bc this is one of those rumors that’s built up lore for years in bespoke realities, & normies may register it as a “shocking revelation”.
Can't wait for Pardon Attorney Ed Martin to broker a deal where Maduro "confesses" to rigging the 2020 election in exchange for clemency and cushy exile.
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Yup. I did draft this post as part of a broader recap of every foreign conspiracy theory we saw in 2020…
(FWIW Ed Martin just got axed — ppl initially expected it to be him, not Tulsi! Bc you know, DNI not supposed to be involved in domestic investigations and all that.)
bsky.app/profile/noup...
(FWIW Ed Martin just got axed — ppl initially expected it to be him, not Tulsi! Bc you know, DNI not supposed to be involved in domestic investigations and all that.)
bsky.app/profile/noup...
They didn’t release the transcripts until a week before Xmas, in a 12k page mass dump in an appendix just before the Weaponization committee disbanded.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/spee...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/spee...
Speech, Coercion, and the Myth of the Censorship Regime
Google's letter to Rep. Jim Jordan inadvertently provides evidence against the "censorship industrial complex" narrative he is using it to support.
www.lawfaremedia.org
February 8, 2026 at 2:50 AM
They didn’t release the transcripts until a week before Xmas, in a 12k page mass dump in an appendix just before the Weaponization committee disbanded.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/spee...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/spee...
Tulsi Gabbard out here losing the “Who was President in 2020?” game tonight
They don’t even try to lie well.
They don’t even try to lie well.
February 8, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Tulsi Gabbard out here losing the “Who was President in 2020?” game tonight
They don’t even try to lie well.
They don’t even try to lie well.
Make RIGHT WING media demand a public hearing.
February 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Make RIGHT WING media demand a public hearing.
lol no it won’t — it’s so that they could fucking lie in the reports they wrote, obviously.
Which is what they did!
It’s why they don’t want Bill Clinton testifying publicly. Didn’t want Hunter Biden. They don’t want a fight and they don’t want facts to puncture the facade.
Clinton should fight.
Which is what they did!
It’s why they don’t want Bill Clinton testifying publicly. Didn’t want Hunter Biden. They don’t want a fight and they don’t want facts to puncture the facade.
Clinton should fight.
February 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
lol no it won’t — it’s so that they could fucking lie in the reports they wrote, obviously.
Which is what they did!
It’s why they don’t want Bill Clinton testifying publicly. Didn’t want Hunter Biden. They don’t want a fight and they don’t want facts to puncture the facade.
Clinton should fight.
Which is what they did!
It’s why they don’t want Bill Clinton testifying publicly. Didn’t want Hunter Biden. They don’t want a fight and they don’t want facts to puncture the facade.
Clinton should fight.
When the cEnSorShiP indusTriaL cOmplEx hearings were happening I offered to testify in public only—if there was a mass cabal why didn’t Rs want accountability?! Why keep only calling liars like Shellenberger and Taibbi as witnesses w/backroom interrogations for perps?
The answer will shock you…
The answer will shock you…
February 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
When the cEnSorShiP indusTriaL cOmplEx hearings were happening I offered to testify in public only—if there was a mass cabal why didn’t Rs want accountability?! Why keep only calling liars like Shellenberger and Taibbi as witnesses w/backroom interrogations for perps?
The answer will shock you…
The answer will shock you…