<description>&lt;p&gt;Renee DiResta, professor and author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, joins the show again to dive deeper into disinformation, propaganda, and "pseudo-events," or manufactured controversies and news stories.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;She explains why it&amp;rsquo;s so difficult to tell fact from fiction online, how propagandists stoke real, often legitimate tensions to create division, how American politicians are amplifying false information instead of shutting it down, and possible policies that could help reduce our culty social media silos.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;SOURCES&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.reneediresta.com/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.reneediresta.com/&amp;amp;source=gmail&amp;amp;ust=1764219736034000&amp;amp;usg=AOvVaw2gk3HA888WoOmy4wNEnac7"&gt;Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-events_in_America" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-events_in_America&amp;amp;source=gmail&amp;amp;ust=1764219736034000&amp;amp;usg=AOvVaw1pD8rE6P01KpG_OQ7SD9iK"&gt;The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener"&gt;omnystudio.com/listener&lt;/a&gt; for privacy information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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Renee DiResta - Part 2: Pseudo-Events, More on Disinformation, and Telling Fact From Fiction

DEC 10, 202549 MIN
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

Renee DiResta - Part 2: Pseudo-Events, More on Disinformation, and Telling Fact From Fiction

DEC 10, 202549 MIN

Description

Renee DiResta, professor and author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality, joins the show again to dive deeper into disinformation, propaganda, and "pseudo-events," or manufactured controversies and news stories.

She explains why it’s so difficult to tell fact from fiction online, how propagandists stoke real, often legitimate tensions to create division, how American politicians are amplifying false information instead of shutting it down, and possible policies that could help reduce our culty social media silos.

SOURCES

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality


The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America

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