Stanford Internet Observatorys Renee Diresta: Sharpies, CIA supercomputers and human antennas

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 3 a.m.

The Sunday Times\u2019 tech correspondent brings on Renee DiResta of the Stanford INternet Observatory to talk about how Twitter handled 2020 (3:30), mainstream media getting a pass (40), Facebook groups (9:45), Sharpiegate (8:30), the election day war room (11:45), conspiracy \u201ctickets\u201d (15:00), how conspiracies spread (16:45), Trump\u2019s centrality to the voter fraud posts (21:40), how these theories play out in the real world (26:40), the low cost to spreading misinformation (28:45), how 2020 compares to 2016 (33:30), Covid vaccines as the next target (36:20), whats changed between the first tech hearing and the most recent (39:00), and what Tiktok learned (41:30).

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