People say a lot of crazy things on the internet; I usually ignore it. But today, after nearly a full month of being smeared by Michael Shellenberger, including in sworn Congressional testimony, I’m releasing some files of my own.

reneediresta.substack.com/p/fiction-vs-r… I’d been chatting w/Mike off the record for months. He reached out in Dec, wanted to learn about content moderation. Was adamant ab not doing “gotcha journalism”; I regularly talk to ppl I disagree with. We eventually did Sam Harris. samharris.org/podcasts/makin…

🧵Interesting Facebook’s adversarial threat report today: 4 disinformation networks: 🇷🇺Russia (Ukraine-related), 🇷🇸Serbia, 🇨🇺Cuba, 🇧🇴Bolivia.

Some were pretty big, state-linked but w/mercenary component (paid operators), $$$ ad spend.

Some thoughts... about.fb.com/news/2023/02/m… First: despite recent attempts to fake-newsify the very word “disinformation” lately - part of a concerted effort to reassociate it w/content moderation battles in the US culture war - it remains a real thing, a real problem, and a real challenge for social media companies.