HeyJaredAgents of Influence
A place for quick takes - video and text - on social media rumors, influence operations, tech policy, and other extremely online things.
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Suddenly, Foreign Influence Research Is Good Again (opens the original)
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On Monday I wrote about Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers’ extraordinary effort to leak documents from the State Department’s now-dismantled Global Engagement Center. Rogers claimed that some decontextualized screenshots proved the center was “heavily involved” in “censorship-by-proxy” during the 2020 election. The MA
Live with Renee Diresta on Grokipedia's Deafening Silence (opens the original)
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When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz (opens the original)
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The paperback of Invisible Rulers is out today, with a brand new chapter about how powerful elites in government now spin rumors into reality, justifying power grabs, dismantling agencies, and gutting budgets. You can find it on Amazon here, or independent/other bookstores here. To mark the new edition, I’m releasing audio and a <a href="https://www.reneediresta.c
Live with Renée DiResta (opens the original)
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What Can the Pangram AI Detector on Substack Actually Tell You? (opens the original)
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In May 2024, Meta began to label images that it identified as having been “imagined with AI.” Shortly after the rollout, Australian photographer Peter Yan posted that a photo he’d taken of Mt. Fuji had been branded. Yan’s image wasn’t synthetic. It was a human-taken photograph, lightly edited in Photoshop using Adobe’s Generati
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