Tue April 10, 2018
Renée DiResta at The Interval: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Influence Us
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Clandestine influence campaigns are rampant on social media. Whether pushing Russian agitprop, manipulating Amazon reviews, or spreading lies about vaccines, many interests take advantage of these platforms to influence opinions & policies, and make us question what is true.
The Interval at Long Now welcomes Renée DiResta (technologist, activist)
Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us
A technologist, Wall Street veteran, and citizen advisor to Congress, Renée DiResta will tell us how bad it is and some things we can do.
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm at The Interval at Long Now
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Renée DiResta studies narrative manipulation as the Director of Research at New Knowledge. She is a Mozilla Foundation fellow on Media, Misinformation and Trust, and is affiliated with the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. Renee is a WIRED Ideas contributor, writing about discourse and the internet. In past lives she has been on the founding team of supply chain logistics startup Haven, a venture capitalist at OATV, and a trader at Jane Street..
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The Interval at Long Now welcomes Renée DiResta (technologist, activist)
Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us
A technologist, Wall Street veteran, and citizen advisor to Congress, Renée DiResta will tell us how bad it is and some things we can do.
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm at The Interval at Long Now
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
Renée DiResta studies narrative manipulation as the Director of Research at New Knowledge. She is a Mozilla Foundation fellow on Media, Misinformation and Trust, and is affiliated with the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. Renee is a WIRED Ideas contributor, writing about discourse and the internet. In past lives she has been on the founding team of supply chain logistics startup Haven, a venture capitalist at OATV, and a trader at Jane Street..
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today
Clandestine influence campaigns are rampant on social media. Whether pushing Russian agitprop, manipulating Amazon reviews, or spreading lies about vaccines, many interests take advantage of these platforms to influence opinions & policies, and make us question what is true.
The Interval at Long Now welcomes Renée DiResta (technologist, activist)
Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us
A technologist, Wall Street veteran, and citizen advisor to Congress, Renée DiResta will tell us how bad it is and some things we can do.
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm at The Interval at Long Now
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
Renée DiResta studies narrative manipulation as the Director of Research at New Knowledge. She is a Mozilla Foundation fellow on Media, Misinformation and Trust, and is affiliated with the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. Renee is a WIRED Ideas contributor, writing about discourse and the internet. In past lives she has been on the founding team of supply chain logistics startup Haven, a venture capitalist at OATV, and a trader at Jane Street..
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today
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The Interval at Long Now welcomes Renée DiResta (technologist, activist)
Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us
A technologist, Wall Street veteran, and citizen advisor to Congress, Renée DiResta will tell us how bad it is and some things we can do.
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm at The Interval at Long Now
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
Renée DiResta studies narrative manipulation as the Director of Research at New Knowledge. She is a Mozilla Foundation fellow on Media, Misinformation and Trust, and is affiliated with the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University. Renee is a WIRED Ideas contributor, writing about discourse and the internet. In past lives she has been on the founding team of supply chain logistics startup Haven, a venture capitalist at OATV, and a trader at Jane Street..
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