Inside the Fight Against Election Disinformation, with Renée DiResta

During the 2016 presidential election cycle, Russian operatives used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms to spread disinformation in order to divide the American public. Four years later, misleading and false information about the 2020 presidential election is still rampant online. And this time around, more of that misleading information is coming from domestic actors within the U.S. As research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, Renée DiResta investigates the spread of malign narratives across social networks, and assists policymakers in devising responses to the problems that those narratives create. On the World Class Podcast, she discusses what it’s like to navigate this online world of propaganda and conspiracy theories. For more from the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, follow: Website: https://fsi.stanford.edu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FSIStanford Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StanfordFSI/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fsi_stanford/ The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is Stanford University's premier research institute for the study of international affairs. Our work informs decision-makers in Washington, Geneva, Beijing and beyond, and our Policy Implementation Lab helps ensure that our research has real-world impact.