Masters of Disinformation
The days of cat videos and grandkids' pictures are over. The posts we see on social media platforms now are often manipulated by forces trying to move our opinions one way or another. In this session, Renee DiResta, Ryan Mac and Elle Reeve will discuss the who, how and why.
| Where: | Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110)  |
| When: | Sat, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 10:55 am |
| Signing area: | Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Tent (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Current Issues / Politics / Social Science |
| Moderator: | Tim Steller |
| Sponsors: | Session made possible courtesy of Beach Fleischman, Pepper Viner Homes, Womble Bond Dickinson |
Panelists
Renée DiRestaRenée DiResta is a social media researcher who studies adversarial abuse online, ranging from state actors running influence operations, to scammers, spammers and issues related to child safety....
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Ryan MacRyan Mac is a Los Angeles-based technology reporter for the New York Times. He has spent more than a decade reporting on wealth and power in Silicon Valley, first on staff at Forbes, and then at BuzzFeed News, where he was a senior reporter....
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Elle ReeveElle Reeve is a correspondent for CNN, where she reported from the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. She previously worked for Vice News, where she won two Emmys and a Peabody for her documentary on the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017....
Books:
Invisible Rulers
The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality
Renée DiResta
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
PublicAffairs
June 2024
ISBN 9781541703377
448 pages
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Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
Ryan Mac
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Penguin Group
September 2024
ISBN 9780593656136
480 pages
Buy nowThe richest man on earth controlled one of the most powerful media platforms in the world--but at what price? Before long Twitter would be gone for good, replaced by something radically different, as Musk remade the company in his own image from the ground up.
The story of the showdown between Musk and Twitter and his eventual takeover of the company is unlike anything in business or media that has come before. In vivid, cinematic detail, Conger and Mac follow the inner workings of the company as Musk lays siege to it, first from the outside as one of its most vocal users, and then finally from within as a contentious and mercurial leader. Musk has shared some of his version of events, but Conger and Mac have uncovered the full story through exclusive interviews, unreported documents, and internal recordings at Twitter following the billionaire's takeover. With unparalleled sources from within and around the company, they provide a revelatory, three-dimensional, and definitive account of what really happened when Musk showed up, spoiling for a brawl and intent on revolution, with his merciless, sycophantic cadre of lawyers, investors, and bankers.
This is the defining story of our time told with uncommon style and peerless rigor. In a world of viral ideas and emotion, who gets to control the narrative, who gets to be heard, and what does power really cost? More/less
Black Pill
How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics
Elle Reeve
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Simon and Schuster
July 2024
ISBN 9781982198886
304 pages
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