Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
Invisible Rulers (PublicAffairs, 2024) is disinformation researcher Renée DiResta's account of how influencers, algorithms and online crowds shape what people believe. Beginning with her experience of the 2015 fight over California's school vaccine law, DiResta shows how a small, passionate group can dominate social media. She traces the bespoke realities that grow up around anti-vaccine activism, election denial and COVID-19 rumors, recounts the harassment of researchers like herself, and argues for ways to restore trust and resist manipulation.
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- Ryan Holiday: “I would also recommend Renée DiResta's book Invisible Rulers... This is I think a book that will help you spot slop, help you spot spam”