Renee DiResta

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The paperback of “Invisible Rulers: The Ppl Who Turn Lies Into Reality” comes out in 1 mo. It has the story of the machine that went after us in a new epilogue.(Invisiblerulers.com)

Media folks, pls cover this loss for AFL. I’m very happy to talk ab it. The public needs to understand these attacks.

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The “Censorship Industrial Complex” was a hoax perpetuated by Matt Taibbi, Jim Jordan, Michael Shellenberger, Mike Benz, & Musk. The election deniers & their puppet media came for us bc they didn’t like our speech. They were mad ab our election work. Facts inconvenienced them.

I’m v proud of that.

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Stanford fought the lawsuit, which I’m grateful for. Our legal team was incredible.

But the university still shut Stanford Internet Observatory down bc they didn’t want to deal w/political pressure.

It costs real time &💵 to fight vexatious bs for 3 yrs. But you have to fight—or else the liars win.

I wrote ab July 4 three years ago when a judge made up a quote & attributed it to me — said I said we’d done our work to “get around the 1st Amendment”. I couldn’t respond then bc AFL had just sued us in front of that judge.

This year he’s just dismissed our case.

open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

Happy July 4! We beat Stephen Miller in court.

A federal court dismissed Hines v. Stamos in full — America First Legal's "censorship" suit against the Election Integrity Partnership and Virality Project. No standing, no jurisdiction, no evidence.

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But I lost my job bc of their lies & smears.

The judge in this case, Terry Doughty, was the Murthy v Missouri judge. He made up a fake quote & attributed it to me in a dramatic opinion in that case on July 4th 2023.

Today he had to acknowledge that America First Legal’s case was built on lies.

This is insane

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

In advance of tonight: we are going to hear long-debunked claims about “rigged elections”re-aired alongside declassification theater.

Here’s how to understand the facts vs the playbook:

open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

Trump is going to lie to you tonight. An old guide to propaganda shows how to spot the red flags.

Trump is expected to revive his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, using selectively declassified intelligence as “receipts.” Here’s how to spot the tricks used to sell that story.

A bot's code got rejected from matplotlib, so it wrote a hit piece on the human who rejected it — and no one could find the person behind it. 'Proof of personhood' is one proposed fix -- but can it be done without a checkpointed internet?

My new essay up at Noema: www.noemamag.com/we-need-a-wa...

We Need A Way To Prove Personhood Online | NOEMA

The growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain.

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Here's the article about Tulsi Gabbard that CIA Renee wrote and wants you to read 😊. Lotta antivax nutjobs on X are very mad about it.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

Tulsi Gabbard’s Fauci Files Don’t Prove What She Says They Prove

Gabbard’s declassification theater is a case study in politicizing intelligence.

I see I’m going to be writing another “here is how they IC leaders are lying to you” article this week.

There was interference in the 2020 election. China, Iran, Russia all messed around at the margins. It was not even close to what happened in 2016 bc platforms, researchers & govt were vigilant.

Does your AI say the 2020 election wasn’t stolen? The free speech enjoyer administration is coming for you.

www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

FTC Seeks Public Comment on Policy Statement Addressing AI Accuracy

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a

The 2020 election was neither rigged nor stolen. Here we break down what the documents actually said. Yet again, we read them.

Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org

@annabower.bsky.social, @juliacurlee.bsky.social, @noupside.bsky.social, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social & @lorenvoss.bsky.social go through each allegation President Trump made in his speech last Thursday on the 2020 election and analyze what the documents really show.

Everything Trump’s Election Speech Did Not Prove

After years of searching for any scrap of evidence that suggests the 2020 election was stolen, the White House still hasn’t found it.

Another court victory to celebrate — this time against the Administration’s efforts to target the speech of researchers.

knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

Federal Court Suspends Trump Immigration Policy Targeting Technology Researchers

Did they pay $100k per post?

Counterpoint: the fact that measles cases are exploding is a sign that parents need to stand up locally and say no MAHA bullshit in our schools.

MAHA recognizes itself as a political constituency and ppl advocating for basic common sense now have to do the same.

I spoke with Channel 4 about the declassification theater we saw last night and the documents that were released

Spoiler: there’s no there there

youtu.be/3prXcyXZWZI?...

Trump accuses China of ‘meddling’ in 2020 US election

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

Have also had this experience. With Pangram specifically — it’s a farce.

AI detectors just don’t work very well. But as norms about AI writing are still forming and as schools don’t know what to do, they are being used despite overpromising on what they can deliver.

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And, I might add, the reward for groups like EIP that tracked foreign interference as it happened, and published about it in realtime, was years of subpoenas and lawsuits from election deniers who pretended it was a plot to “censor millions of tweets”.

We are piloting a “Best of friends” feed (good stuff from ppl you follow) & some other new feeds as part of a research project into feed algorithms that focus on things other than sensationalism, but are also not just “reverse chron”. Things are in beta but you can pin “GreenEarth” to check it out.

Shot | Chaser

I also still believe this is a when, not it. “Maduro rigged the election and he’s confessing” will be announced with a plea deal.

I wrote about all the bullshit “foreign nexus” theories that were floated in 2020. Pay attention: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/five...

Five Foreign Election Conspiracy Theories Making the Rounds Again

Conspiracy theories about 2020 fraud are being dredged up again as pretext for consolidating federal control over elections.

Live rent free in the heads of your (incredibly stupid) enemies

Thacker snitch-tagged Mike Benz, too 😂 Senpai, notice me!

Behemoth just turned 3! 🎂 #caturday

He can stand on his hind legs and see the top of the counter, and he weighs 20lb. He’s getting a mane. He is my husband’s lap cat and is only marginally interested in me.

I had United Healthcare for 1 unfortunate year & am still fighting a bill they sent for a 15 min colonoscopy prep call that went for 5 min & that I didn’t want to be on in the first place. It was “mandatory”, I acquiesced, then they said it didn’t fall under “everything covered preventative care”.