Renée DiResta is the Director of Research at New Knowledge and a Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust.
people though they really are it's just it's fucking hard business especially when you didn't
see it coming two one hello renee hello thanks for doing this i really appreciate it thanks for
having me uh i listened to you on sam harris's podcast and i was utterly stunned i had to listen
to it twice because i just couldn't let's get into let's get into this from the beginning how did
this start out how did you start researching these uh online russian trolls and bots and
and all this jazz yeah so a couple years back in around 2015 um i i had had my my first baby in
2013 and i was getting on these preschool lists and what i decided to do was i started looking at um
anti-vaccine activity in california because i had a kid and i wanted to uh you know put them on
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