Renee DiResta

📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality
Studies adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Prev Stanford, tech, Jane Street
🦹🏻‍Twitter Files bête noire

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

This morning Jacob Siegel manufactured a controversy to gin up sales for his error-riddled book; he admits as much in the article he wrote for @TheFP, where he plays victim and pretends that a correction is cEnsoRsHiP.

He says I "didn't deny" asking The Baffler to pull its review of my book but I absolutely fucking do lol. And I did on the phone with an editor for The Free Press this afternoon. Somehow, Jacob's email to me demanding my emails with other publications was supposed to serve as its own factcheck.

Here's what actually happened: "Corrections Are Censorship: Jacob Siegel’s Latest Fiction"

https://t.co/8KllOJwrIP

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@aka_stevelewis Thanks :)

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

Tulsi claims she “exposed” something but she didn’t. Anyone who read the documents knows that — but there were 67 documents, so most people didn’t read them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I did. Here’s how Tulsi lies.

[Lawfare @lawfare]

In her final act as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released documents about COVID-19’s origins and Dr. Anthony Fauci. @NoUpside goes claim-by-claim through the "Fauci Files" and finds the documents themselves undercut her bogus accusations that Fauci “sparked” COVID-19 and then covered it up.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

https://t.co/m9i0pZj7Ua

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

Gloated about it, in fact. What was it that made him fixate on USAID? 🤔

Well, Mike Benz took credit for that. A guy who worked for the State Dept for ~2 months — but who the Twitter Files and Tablet Mag crack journos thought had worked there for 2 *years*. They thought Benz “ran cyber” at State. They thought his blog was actually a foundation and called him a “whistleblower”. Elon ate it up. They were all proud of all of it.

[Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas]

Elon Musk bragged about feeding USAID into the "wood chipper" but now he pretends that whatever happens as a result isn't his fault.

If DOGE had saved the federal government billions of dollars, you can be sure he would be taking credit for that.

But somehow he's not responsible for the consequences of eliminating these programs?

Today at @TheArgumentMag we published a thorough explanation for why we should hold @elonmusk responsible for the deaths of *at best* 700,000 people.

https://t.co/7CWoyQCiDk

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

“This is the whole cats and dogs thing”

The cats and dogs thing was bullshit. Every one of the political elites who pushed it knew it. I wrote about it in the new version of my book — because JD Vance being willing to pick that rumor up and run with it was a harbinger of how this administration was going to govern.

[The Megyn Kelly Show @MegynKellyShow]

Megyn sends a message to the Haitians who lost their TPS today:

"Go home! Get out! We know our country is better than yours. That's because we filled it with our work ethic, culture, and values. You being here only dilutes it for us... GO BACK TO FUCKING HAITI!"

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@DKThomp @politicalmath Audience capture and X algo mindrot. Many such cases.

[Denver Dad @DenverDad60]

@rparloff @noUpside Great article. Thanks for posting. This paragraph summed it up for me:

[Lawfare @lawfare]

In her final act as director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard released documents about COVID-19’s origins and Dr. Anthony Fauci. @NoUpside goes claim-by-claim through the "Fauci Files" and finds the documents themselves undercut her bogus accusations that Fauci “sparked” COVID-19 and then covered it up.

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

This is great story by colleague @noUpside .
It dissects not just this particular Tulsi smear, but the whole genre of Tulsi's smears—and, indeed, the whole genre of conspiracy theorist smears used to defame so many decent people every day.
https://t.co/X9cSC8OoJX

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@michaeldweiss Mike’s not stupid, he’s malicious. He knows he’s lying and doesn’t care as long as he fucks over the right people.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

Goddamn this aged well. 😂

Gift link for the shriekers in my replies 💕:
https://t.co/J0nzQp0Ge4

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@Runningmansuzie @OnTopRoofR10898 @jzikah Wuhan military games! Haven’t heard that one in years. Hahaha. are you a Ft Dietrich bioweapon truther?

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

A reminder that this crank cultist lies about what’s in the documents she releases constantly. Read the primary sources to avoid Gabbard-isms.

So glad you’re out, Tulsi. You accomplished nothing of lasting value and revealed yourself to be a simp sycophant for any strongman who will pay you the slightest bit of attention. Assad, Trump, doesn’t matter. I hope your retirement is long and boring.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

Crank cultist, I said.

Fucking nailed it 😂

Gift link, so everyone can read about what a puppet Tulsi has always been:

https://t.co/J0nzQp0Ge4

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

A reminder that this crank cultist lies about what’s in the documents she releases constantly. Read the primary sources to avoid Gabbard-isms.

So glad you’re out, Tulsi. You accomplished nothing of lasting value and revealed yourself to be a simp sycophant for any strongman who will pay you the slightest bit of attention. Assad, Trump, doesn’t matter. I hope your retirement is long and boring.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@OnTopRoofR10898 @jzikah Move those goalposts lol

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@OnTopRoofR10898 @jzikah No of course not we all dropped dead after the first vaccines don’t worry you antivax cranks were totallllly right. Tulsi should drop the secret docs about how we all died and were reincarnated by CIA space lasers.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@Thecouchcoach11 Keep jerking it to Shellenbullshit

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@OnTopRoofR10898 Riiiigihhhttt any day now lol.

Courts know this is horseshit.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@soncharm Keep paying Shellenberger to feed you bullshit lol

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

Their cases are often bullshit longshots that they’ll definitely lose but they file anyway. Some of the ones mentioned above are winners. File. It’s past time.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

I’m 3 years in as a defendant in vexatious litigation by America First Legal and NCLA. I wish I’d sued for defamation earlier on. Until the left has an answer to the lawsuit mills and fights in court this shit will continue. Sue tf out of them to impose consequences and costs in return, wherever you can win.

[Joseph O'Neill @JosephONeillx]

I wrote in @nybooks about the importance of civil litigation as an unused political tool against the GOP and its allies: