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Hey everyone,

The new episode is out today with Matt Johnson with new intro/outro segments. We have also recorded the full Hitchens decoding episode but that will take a little bit of time to edit.

In the meantime, here is an interview we just recorded today with Renee DiResta on a range of topics including...Contemporary disinformation networks (including how they have been impacted by Elon’s Twitter), Renee's research on the 2016 election, covid conspiracies, and disinformation ecosystems, the role of bots in social media, her experience becoming a target for conspiracy theorists, and how important gurus are in spreading conspiracies.

Enjoyed this one and hope you all do too. Also just trying out to upload the episode on Patreon directly. Let me know if there are any issues.

For those who would prefer a YouTube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHme9LfhWP4

Comments

Brendan Smith

Patreon video seems to work just fine but, like YouTube, doesn't continue playing for phone listeners when the phone is locked (at least for me) like Patreon audio only does. Sometimes I'll quickly rip the video's audio so I have something playable on the phone when out and about. I don't know about other people but I'd appreciate audio uploads if it wasn't any hassle for you Decoders!

Protagonist Science

God this has so much to love, might need to take out some clips if that is allowed? Otherwise I wait

Protagonist Science

I also very much appreciated her talking about information cascades and complex contagion intelligently. Very much how my thinking goes on how this creates an environment for information pathogens...

Exai

Not loving the Patreon upload. Web browser does the thing where it stops the video if you scroll it out of your screen (like, to write this comment). I can't imagine what kind of inbred UX imbecile invented that whole hostile architecture trend.

Paul Sees

Awesome episode guys!

lun

This was very informative.