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]

“we don’t want you doing what we just did”

[Jacqueline Alemany @JaxAlemany]

A warning from the White House Counsel’s office to incoming House Committee Chairman Robert Garcia that D lawmakers making “abusive threats” & statements about “indiscriminate issuance of subpoenas” may “cross the line into blatant criminality.” Confirming @PunchbowlNews >

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

Funny. Your “rigorous editorial process” when you smeared me was to let your buddy from Tablet guest-post a 2000 word pile of innuendo accusing me of something I didn’t do.

I reached out to editors within minutes of it dropping and provided a rebuttal and email evidence it was a completely false. You told me I could write a letter to the editor. You promoted the story anyway.

When I did so, you took nearly a week to publish it because you kept editing my words to strip out the parts of the story that made your editorial standards look bad. You never issued a correction. And now here we are.

https://t.co/TfLIrB7TpI

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@CathyYoung63 Their standards are dogshit this is not surprising to anyone who’s seen under the hood. I wrote about my experience trying to get those propagandists to issue a correction about a really basic factual issue.

https://t.co/P8NrfugBrd

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

And TBC I’ve read it from the beginning because I thought, like you, that it covered issues from a perspective that was important to understand. But it became clear that they got audience captured and became their own echo chamber. Many such cases.

I was also amused that they kept doubling down on their friend Jay Bhattacharya’s sob story even after courts called bullshit.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

I’m happy to talk. This was my experience. It was insane. They let their friend smear me, promoted it in their newsletter as a top story repeatedly, and when given hard evidence showing it was all made up they offered to let me write an LTE which they then edited to strip out facts & tone while telling me i should be grateful for my right to respond. They never issued a correction and it wasn’t remotely an ambiguous issue.

https://t.co/TfLIrB7TpI

[Jared Holt @jaredlholt]

Congratulations to the sectors of the pundit class who are waking up to the fact that much of the criticism of Bari Weiss’ Free Press outlet was deserved, actually, and it is right to view that site with contempt

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

Arsonists ask why firefighters are so bad at their jobs these days.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@jessesingal Community Notes are not working as intended. Most things don’t get ratings and tribalism makes people downvote even the most neutral notes stating obvious facts

https://t.co/mcrO10ctGv

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@ChildrensHD @grok is this true

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@huxsoma @TheFP They DIDN’T print a correction in the case above try literacy.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@TheFP You don’t regret it. You regret that you got yelled at. Your editorial standards are a joke.

https://t.co/P8NrfugBrd

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@micsolana @TaylorLorenz @CommunityNotes Most notes are now written by 6 AI note writers run by X.

I think the AIs outperform human writers on a few things (they are strong on neutral language) but they get a lot wrong where recency is concerned, or if they can’t retrieve good info.

https://t.co/mcrO10d1w3

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@TheFP You guys are such fucking hacks

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@Noahpinion In all seriousness, I actually forgot him. Oh well.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@willsommer She said there was gonna be a color revolution.

What color was it?

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

I voted for this

[hannah gais @hannahgais]

One thing I hope we learn soon is how much access Jennica Pounds and other influencers were given to classified documents in the Pentagon, State Department, intelligence agencies, and elsewhere—and what they did with them. Because the answer is not definitely not "zero."

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Totally forgot about this from @rabois

[Christopher Mims 🤌 @mims]

@TheStalwart Take it from someone who avidly consumes bluesky and X and threads and all of them: social media has balkanized. All of these places have their own particular flavor and biases. The only solution is a diverse social media diet, just the same as for traditional media.