From Russia with Likes (Part 2) — with Renée DiResta

In the second part of our interview with Renée DiResta,
disinformation expert, Mozilla fellow, and co-author of the
Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, she
explains how social media platforms use your sense of identity
and personal relationships to keep you glued to their sites
longer, and how those design choices have political consequences.
The online tools and tactics of foreign agents can be very
precise and deliberate, but they don’t have to be -- Renée has
seen how deception and uncertainty are powerful agents of
distrust and easy to create. Do we really need the ease of global
amplification of information-sharing that social media enables,
anyway? We don’t want spam in our email inbox so why do we
tolerate it in our social media feed?  What would happen if
we had to copy and paste and click twice, or three times? Tristan
and Aza also brainstorm ways to prevent and control
disinformation in the lead-up to elections, and particularly the
2020 U.S. elections.