{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/8cf4cec7-5a0f-49c5-8ec9-36941b5c6b6e/a51d9d35-0cc0-47f0-aa8b-3a1fb8478319?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Stanford Internet Observatory’s Renee Diresta: “Sharpies, CIA supercomputers and human antennas”","description":"<p>The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent brings on Renee DiResta of the Stanford INternet Observatory to talk about how Twitter handled 2020 (3:30), mainstream media getting a pass (40), Facebook groups (9:45), Sharpiegate (8:30), the election day war room (11:45), conspiracy “tickets” (15:00), how conspiracies spread (16:45), Trump’s centrality to the voter fraud posts (21:40), how these theories play out in the real world (26:40), the low cost to spreading misinformation (28:45), how 2020 compares to 2016 (33:30), Covid vaccines as the next target (36:20), whats changed between the first tech hearing and the most recent (39:00), and what Tiktok learned (41:30).</p><p><em>Get The Times free for a month:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"http://thetimes.co.uk/dannyinthevalley\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">thetimes.co.uk/dannyinthevalley</a></p>","author_name":"The Sunday Times"}