Renee DiResta

@noupside

🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown ✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost) 📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻‍♀️Twitter Files supervillain

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Renee DiResta@noupside· 24d

🌱 is one of these catnip and one a weed? I think the yellow flower guys are weeds but I’ve never grown catnip before.

Renee DiResta@noupside· 24d

Did they pay $100k per post?

Tim Pool @Timcast
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HOLY SHIT
Trump says intel shows China paid US journalists to write negative stories about the Trump administration

Renee DiResta@noupside· 28d

I see I’m going to be writing another “here is how they IC leaders are lying to you” article this week. There was interference in the 2020 election. China, Iran, Russia all messed around at the margins. It was not even close to what happened in 2016 bc platforms, researchers & govt were vigilant.

Jesse Rodriguez @JesseRodriguez
More from MS NOW: President Trump plans to deliver a Thursday evening speech addressing newly declassified intelligence reports that the White House asserts reveal plans by foreign nations to interfere in the 2020 election, according to two White House officials granted anonymity to discuss internal plans.
@jake_traylor
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Renee DiResta@noupside· 29d

New paper out w/great co-authors across several fields: AI & the Future of Digital Public Squares, led by @bgoldberg.bsky.social Focuses on shifts in 🗣️Deliberation & Collective Dialogue Systems 🌉Bridging Systems ⚖️Community-driven Moderation 🤖Proof of Humanity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Two substantial technological advances have reshaped the public square in recent decades: first, the advent of the internet and second, the recent introduction of large language models (LLMs). LLMs offer opportunities to reimagine and redesign more decentralized, participatory online spaces that can be used to facilitate deliberative dialogues at scale, but LLMs without proper governance can also exacerbate societal schisms. Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems. Building on the input from over 70 civil society experts and technologists, we argue that LLMs both afford promising opportunities to shift the paradigm for conversations at scale and pose distinct risks for digital public squares. Given that people are shaped through their interactions in public squares, there is an important opportunity to build individual capacities and collective cohesion by transforming these digital public spaces. We lay out an agenda for future research and investments in AI that will strengthen digital public squares and safeguard against potential misuses of AI.

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jul 10

Shot | Chaser

Trump takes on builder in chief role at WhiteHouse
Yesterday

Trump aimed to finish these projects by July 4.
Many are not done.
6 hours ago

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jul 3

He’s chirping at the one who just flew out of the nest.

Maine Coon intently looking out the window

Grey Maine coon with both paws on the windows

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jul 3

Doves that we see every year made a nest in the holly. Right by the window with the cat tree.

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jul 2

But I lost my job bc of their lies & smears. The judge in this case, Terry Doughty, was the Murthy v Missouri judge. He made up a fake quote & attributed it to me in a dramatic opinion in that case on July 4th 2023. Today he had to acknowledge that America First Legal’s case was built on lies.

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jul 2

Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.

Case 3:23-cv-00571-TAD-KDM
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
MONROE DIVISION
JILL HINES ET AL
VERSUS
ALEX STAMOS ET AL
CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571
JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY
MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D.
MCCLUSKY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject
Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos,
Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the
Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the
Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition
[Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209].
For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.
I. BACKGROUND
This case is before the Court on limited remand to determine jurisdiction.
Hines v. Stamos, 111 F.4th 551 (5th Cir. 2024); see also [Doc. No. 112]. On May 2,

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 29

Which AI is best equipped to run a society? The answer may (not) surprise you! www.instagram.com/reel/DYzu9ZZ...

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 26

Live rent free in the heads of your (incredibly stupid) enemies Thacker snitch-tagged Mike Benz, too 😂 Senpai, notice me!

Renee DiResta sure got upset by the "CIA Renee" label, yet here she's jumping all over DNI Tulsi Gabbard for exposing CIA problems. It does make you wonder why Renee DiResta constantly plays intel expert, yet
freaks when people note her close ties to intel agencies.

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 22

Muh freeze peach 😂 A lot of screaming and crying about how killing USAID didn’t kill kids from Frame Game ‘Hitler had some good points’ Mike Benz and trillionaire baby Elon Musk today. They’re trying to deflect to pretend USAID was rigging LatAm elections.

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There is not even a single dead child!
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If there were, it would be worldwide headline news!

Absolutely. This is a total lie.
All DOGE did was require contact with the aid recipients to confirm that funds were being used legitimately. Anything less than this is insane!
Multiple people from USAID have been charged by the Justice Department with stealing money.

End Wokeness
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7 Latin American elections since USAID
was defunded:
1 Chile: "far-right" Kast won
Bolivia: "far-right" Paz won
• • Peru: "far-right" Fujimori won
Ecuador: "far-right" Noboa won
Honduras: "far-right" Asfura won
Colombia: "far-right" Espriella won
Costa Rica: "far-right" Fernandez
Won

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 11

Did you see Taibbi?

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 11

Here at a live taping of Hard Fork getting ready to heckle @caseynewton.bsky.social and @kevinroose.com

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 10

Did someone forget to turn on the rigging machine for the top-of-ticket race or what?

Hilton Beats Steyer to Win Second Spot in California Governor Race

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 9

Matt Taibbi's defamation case against Rep Kamager-Dove has been tossed. He sued her because she asked why the Republicans, in yet another hearing about the CeNsoRshIp iNDusTriAl cOmPlex (which doesn't exist) kept inviting a "serial sexual harasser". Here, relive and savor the moment:

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 9

🍿 (CEnsOsrHiP!!1!1!!!)

Bobby Allyn ®
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NEW: Kalshi now says it prohibits paid creators from calling into question the integrity or accuracy of an election, legal ruling or official determination in connection with an election.
It follows Kalshi cracking down on paid affiliates who were spreading misinformation about California's election.
Polymarket has not responded to questions about whether it is acting on paid affiliates amplifying election misinfo, nor if it has any rules against it.
1:51 PM • Jun 8, 2026 • 22.3K

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NEW: Polymarket now says any affiliate post denying an election result would violate their terms of service stipulating that creators do not spread false and misleading information.
The company says it has asked that posts from two of its paid affiliates lose its sponsorship.

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 8

Former HFT here — this is a bad idea don’t do it unless you’re willing to lose everything in the account 😂

Your agent can now trade
Connect your Al agent to Robinhood and start trading. Your agent can read, trade, and monitor in real time in a dedicated agentic account.

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 8

Who’s gonna tell her…or the other 15k people who liked this 😂

Rep. Anna Paulina...
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The US gov sends billions to California to subsidize their failed policies. It is time we STOP until they clean up their shady election process.
9:40 PM • Jun 7, 2026 • 323.3K

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 8

The "major scandal" the legacy media should be covering is the fact that a sitting Senator thinks that a poll saying that 24% of Americans *believe* they know someone who died from the COVID vax, is the same thing as that being *true*. There is no way this is mathematically possible.

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 8

Ohhhh hey. Now that the obvious has happened and Decision Desk has called it for Raman, you’ll see two common tropes: “they were printed not counted!” and “these stats show it’s rigged!” (Bad Math) Read my post and share it with family members who come at you with that.

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Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary
#DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT
Los Angeles

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 6

Watching Hunter speak so directly now, I wonder if he was given the same dogshit “shut up and say nothing” advice that so many others who went through political smear campaigns heard over the last few years. Advice from the 1990s.

Hunter Biden @HunterBiden
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Ha. No. So the "laptop" was never just a laptop. They hacked my could and there were several stolen devices. The legally blind (I kid you not) repair shop guy turned over a hard drive to Rudy and his lawyer.
They (among others) then used that data l believe to hack into my cloud. They cobbled all of the disparate data together, organized it in sinisterly labeled folders and then distributed it first piecemeal through the NY Post and then ultimately put everything on the internet. Over 29 years of my digital footprint. I'd argue it the most egregious violation of privacy in modern politics. What they found was evidence of a man who suffered for a period of time from a severe addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol. What they did not find was anything to do with Bribery or foreign corruption or any crime aotside of those related to my drug use. Short answer I don't have "the laptop " - the whole world does and they've had it for 7 years

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 5

The DOGE kid could never

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How about you go away forever. You should be hung by your teeny tiny balls
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I think there is ample evidence online that at least part of the statement is verifiably false.

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 5

My whole Threads feed is screenshots of Hunter Biden dunking on MAGA on X and it seems Streisanding his laptop is not gonna work out for them. Generational communicator.

Stefan Smith ®
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A lot of this Biden stuff is money. Leaving office, the offers weren't there for him.
The speaking engagements, board offers, and other lucrative deals didn't materialize. The Biden book tours aren't just settling scores, they need the cash.
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You caught them. Mom and Dad were going to sell bibles and cell phones, golden sneakers, and NFTs, Chinese watches and cologne but wouldn't you know someone beat them to the punch.
They were left with only one choice write two books like every former First Lady and President has done in modern history.

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 5

Meatball Ron knows better but is choosing to play footsie with election truthers anyway. The demographics of mail-in ballots are well-established. Spencer Pratt had a lot of social media momentum; that doesn't mean a lot of actual CA votes. Welcome to manufactured consensus & majority illusion.

RonDeSantis: California keeps dumping votes. Odds are shifting because the vote dumps always seem to go one way. Count until you get the result you want? [Polymarket screenshot]

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 4

Here’s Shellenberger lying in this very story. There’s no evidence at all that Aspen got a *leak from the FBI* ab the Hunter Biden Laptop. Their tabletop exercise had nothing to do w/that. Yet Mike keeps pushing this bullshit that he and Mike Benz simply made up. V arrogant, Mike. Do better.

After 2016, mainstream journalists increasingly collaborated with partisan activists. A month before the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, Aspen Digital ran a tabletop exercise called "The Burisma Leak," organized by the former NPR and Times executive Vivian Schiller.
Aspen gathered national security reporters from the Times and the Post, a news standards executive from CNN, the editor of The Daily Beast, and the security chiefs of Twitter and Facebook to rehearse how to handle a leak that had not yet happened, and that Aspen likely had learned about from the FBI.
When the real story landed, the participants followed the script, treating the true story - that the laptop indeed showed a vast Biden family influence-peddling scheme — as probable Russian disinformation.

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 4

Shellenberger just phones in slop like this and his readers eat it up. 🐷 Hey Mike you told your readers I’m a secret CIA agent who brainwashed Obama and censored 22 million tweets, and only YOU could stop it. Take a seat.

PUBLIC
Why Liberal Journalists Are
So Arrogant
Elite television reporters including Dan Rather, Katie Couric, and Chuck Todd have been repeatedly caught misrepresenting facts and then denying they did so
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER
TODAY AT 4:52 PM

Renee DiResta@noupside· Jun 3

Lindsay Graham goes full simp over creating a weaponization fund to give government handouts to degenerates. Hey Linds, if you start one of these make sure those of us who got harassed by your lying election-denying asshole friends in the US Congress get to prosecute our claims, too.

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While I appreciate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's statement that the proposed weaponization fund will not be moving forward, I am still of the firm belief that there are many victims of the weaponized Biden Justice Department throughout this country.
To suggest nothing happened and that the Biden DOJ did not weaponize the law against Americans is inaccurate. However, creating a new system that is untested is problematic.
Therefore, 1 am proposing that we create a weaponization fund that will be available to those who can prove their claim against the federal government through the Federal Tort Claims Act. We have a legal system already in place for people to make claims against the government. That does not need to be reinvented.
However, it is imperative

Therefore, I am proposing that we create a weaponization fund that will be available to those who can prove their claim against the federal government through the Federal Tort Claims Act. We have a legal system already in place for people to make claims against the government. That does not need to be reinvented.
However, it is imperative that we allow people with meritorious weaponization claims to come forward and receive compensation through this fund. We have to recognize there was a wrong that must be made right if you can prove your claim through the existing process.

Renee DiResta@noupside· May 31

Throwback 😂 He wrote the smear anyway, of course; and crack investigative journalist Jacob Siegel of Tablet cited it as evidence. The midwit circle jerk.

I'm working on a story and need comment back from you by Monday. The last time I sent you questions, you didn't respond and then put the email on Twitter like onstage at a comedy club. To provide you with additional support on professional behavior, I've looped in Stanford's comms office.
Hello Paul,
It is true that the last time you sent me a ridiculous email, I posted it to social media;
I'll be doing that with this one as well despite your tactic of ccing Stanford colleagues to try to exert control.
To answer your questions:
1) Can you please explain again what you did during your time at New Knowledge?
You can read my public interviews about it.
2) What was your total involvement in the Alabama Project and/or Project
Birmingham as was reported by The New York Times and The Washington Post?
You can read the quotes I gave in said reporting by the New York Times and Washington Post when the articles came out five years ago. Since you've no doubt done your homework, you know I didn't work there at the time, didn't run any fake pages or accounts, and didn't have my account taken down by Facebook (which is what happened to those who did.

3) Did you work directly on the DoD grant that was awarded to New Knowledge?
I looked up the grants you might be referencing; as is clear from my Linkedln account, I didn't work there at the time they seem to have been awarded. Also, as l read the descriptions of the contracts they seem to be for subcontract work for social media analytics not ''creating automated disinformation for elections'''
4) Do you have any current DoD grants and/or do you consult for DoD and/or DoD contractors on disinformation?
Nope. But if you'd like to see an example of my work detecting influence operations, you can see reporting on an investigation | did on the US Pentagon here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-s ecurity/2022/09/19/pentagon-psychological-operations-facebook-twitter/

Renee DiResta@noupside· May 29

V important after a redeye to acclimate with a meal & ☀️ at the appropriate time so here’s my poolside burrata with individual bottle of Spanish olive oil 😍while I wait for my room to be ready. I went and picked up my conference badge and listened to morning talks. But I would really like a shower…