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]

Your close friend is being deceived by his media, the influencers he follows, and his political elites. Election delegitimization happens in Arizona when Kari Lake loses. It is not only the slow vote count that’s the problem here. CA is ridiculous in many ways but don’t misdiagnose.

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

Meanwhile the piece in @TheFP today acknowledges that the "cheating" claims are without substance -- but suggests that it's really the fault of the voting system in CA because it takes so long to count the ballots. Barely any criticism of the conspiracy floggers. Very FP. 🙄

[Sam Stein @samstein]

More than a few people who were barking this morning that California Dems had rigged the election against Pratt are currently congratulating Steve Hilton on making the gubernatorial runoff without any recognition that these two things don't compute

[Tom Bonier @tbonier]

If you think the Spencer Pratt trutherism is fun now, just wait until control of the US House comes down to waiting a week for the results of a few districts in CA, later this year.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

Whole new worlds of adversarial action about to open up

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@egregious_poop @EggerDC I have lol. I think I’m good. 😂

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@yaksfun They literally didn’t stop. Cope.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

California politics is insane; it’s national content fodder. Spencer Pratt ran an extremely online campaign. But getting likes from people online doesn’t translate to votes in LA; polling had Raman as a likely 2nd.

The ballot drops are a classic red mirage/blue shift pattern. The prediction markets understand how mail-in ballot distributions work; it’s the most predictable thing in American politics. There’s no evidence of fraud — those claims are pure cope.

https://t.co/8MzNtXMh7Q

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

Every election we see the same tropes and the same cope from the same people.

When they lose, that is.

https://t.co/uiemvRP8lu

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@tobyhardtospell I was hopeful but tonight they’re starting to boost the bs

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@bxragingbullyo Kiss of death

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@elliotlief @yashar @AndrewKolvet California “Democrats” do not all have the same politics. Raman is DSA.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@yashar @AndrewKolvet And her favorables increased with voter awareness. Pratt’s unfavorables increased.

https://t.co/uiemvRP8lu

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@FemGonmVers Cope.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@yaksfun They didn’t! They’ll keep counting. Decision Desk is calling it based on a projection.

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@Cassiodorus2025 Cope

[Max @maxtmcc]

One idea I really enjoy is that Democrats have an unbeatable vote rigging operation, but instead of just using it all the time, they sadistically employ it only after briefly giving Republicans hope

[Renee DiResta @noUpside]

@BenMazer “Why won’t the media stop talking about kids dying of preventable diseases brought back by the lying grifter quacks I’m friends with?”

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is an actual page on the White House web site. It reads like something written about a third world dictator. So embarrassing. I have not seen any branch of the federal government sink this low in my lifetime.