Why Renee DiResta Leads The Censorship Industry

Public Substack ^ | April 3, 2023 | Michael Shellenberger

[Twotone]

Since the 2016 elections, politicians, journalists, and many others have raised the alarm about “foreign election influence” and “disinformation,” demanding greater “content moderation” by social media platforms. It is too easy, they argued, for foreign and malign actors to quickly “go viral” at low cost, leaving the good guys unable to correct bad information. We must become more “resilient” to disinformation.

It’s now clear that all of that rhetoric was cover for a sweeping censorship effort by the federal government and government contractors.

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One of the most intelligent, influential, and fascinating public-facing leaders of the Censorship Industrial Complex is Renee DiResta, Research Manager of the Stanford Internet Observatory. Diresta has, more than anyone else, made the public case for greater government-led and government-funded censorship, writing for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, and other major publications, and through public speaking, including on podcasts with Joe Rogan and Sam Harris.

To many journalists and policymakers, DiResta is one of the good guys, advocating as a citizen and hobbyist for greater U.S. government action to fight disinformation. DiResta has argued that the U.S. has been unprepared to fight the “information war” with Russia and other nations in her bylined articles for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired, and many others. And in her 2018 Senate testimony DiResta advocated “legislation that defines and criminalizes foreign propaganda” and for allowing law enforcement to “prosecute foreign propaganda.”

DiResta, as much as any other public person in the Western world, has sounded the alarm, repeatedly and loudly, for stronger governmental and non-governmental coordination to get social media platforms to censor more information. “The Russian disinformation operations that affected the 2016 United States presidential election are by no means over,” wrote DiResta in the New York Times in December 2018.

[euram]

“The Russian disinformation operations that affected the 2016 United States presidential election are by no means over,” wrote DiResta in the New York Times in December 2018.

Just another liar.

[Chewbarkah]

This is an interesting article that open a new window.

So is Diresta a:
A) “NSA Operative Democrat”;
B) Freelance Democrat; or,
C) Uniparty Deep State Operative?
D) These are all the same thing.

Whence derives her funding?

[Chewbarkah]

Correction. Choice A should be: CIA Operative Democrat.

[Taxman]

Ping

[John S Mosby]

Far more than that— domestic see eye ehhh operative that faked public opinion, manipulated it and directed it to only accept “liberal” themes and narratives... calling all other rational evidence based opinions as.. Russian disinformation, all the while working for Chi-coms and Globalist Marxists. No surprise, but definitely needs to be hounded into non-existence, with dems outed who continue to make us all pay for this shite.