Invisible Rulers
The People Who Turn Lies into Reality

I knew some of the material presented, but the entirety of the subject is illuminating and so depressing. The author offers possible solutions. I am not hopeful. Everyone should read.......more

Good ideas but hard to get past the author's biases. She focuses on certain issues completely ignoring and downplaying others. She chastizes some tactics while actively encouraging the same ones by those she agrees with. It's not about some tactics being bad it's that they're used by the wrong peopl......more

Renee DiResta's observations in Invisible Rulers won't surprise anyone familiar with social media, especially during the current election cycle in America. She discusses at length the influence of Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook on the opinions of those who use these platforms. Much of the material......more

DiResta provides an *actual* reality check on the phenomenon of social-media-enabled "bespoke reality" and its use by those seeking to control, influence, and use it to their own (primarily political) advantage. In the process she delineates an information universe that has been speedily and radicall......more

DiResta does a thorough job of explaining how social media sites have been gamed and abused to get to the situation we’re in now. Her first hand experience and and that of others was at times terrifying (Hotez for one). She does a good job describing the asymmetry of the battle - it’s much harder to......more