Episode Transcript: #1263 - Renée DiResta
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People though, they really are.
It's just 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 believe.
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 of 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
preschool lists where I was going to fit with the parents, basically, um, as