Post #1182967
2025-06-12 12:28 UTC
📆1 year ago, "Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality" hit the shelves.
It's about who shapes what we believe: influencers + algorithms + online crowds.
About bespoke realities, fractured publics, and consensus collapse.
A 🧵 w/some updates on characters and plot points:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/invisible-rulers-the-people-who-turn-lies-into-reality-renee-diresta/20664632
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@Noupside@saturation.social 2025-06-12 12:28
I opened the 📘w/the story of fighting RFK Jr after the Disneyland measles outbreak and talked about how AVs used social media. Now RFK is HHS Secretary & kids are dying of measles in TX. MAHA is a movement. Covid loons like Malone make 💉 decisions. I unpacked the Big Lie: *how* influencers worked rumors into the propaganda campaign of "Stop The Steal"... why the lie became an article of faith, how participating online locks ppl in. Trump is Pres again, punishing ppl who told the truth.
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@digitalrob@defcon.social 2025-06-12 23:32
@Noupside Amazing and disturbing book. I have recommended it constantly since finishing it earlier this year. It is an excellent analysis of our current media reality.