Summary of Invisible Rulers by Renee DiResta ( Keynote reads )

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Renée DiResta's Invisible Rulers explores the transformation of power and influence, revealing how niche propagandists shape public opinion. These invisible rulers, known as Goliaths, create bespoke realities to revolutionize politics, culture, and society. Their work is driven by the maxim that if it makes it trend, it becomes true. This system undermines the legitimacy of institutions, rewriting the relationship between people and government. DiResta offers insights into the power of propagandists and offers ways for leaders to adapt and fight back.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Keynote reads
• Release date: Jun 17, 2024
• ISBN: 9798227727107

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Introduction

Power, Influence, Lies, and Truth

In 2014, the Disneyland measles outbreak led to over 120 people in California falling ill, including a dozen infants, and nearly half of the infected were not vaccinated. The outbreak quickly spread to neighboring states, and by the end of the year, more than six hundred cases of measles were recorded across the country. This incident triggered one of the opening skirmishes in a war for power, influence, and reality itself, which has ripped America apart, threatened our democracy, and consumed my own life for the past decade.

The author, a mom of a twelve-month-old, had been poring over a decade's worth of California school immunization statistics and became fed up with anti-vax threads that rehashed debunked nonsense. She found herself scrutinizing tables that showed the rates of personal belief exemptions, opt-outs justified not by any medical or religious concern but by the simple desire to opt out. Over ten years of data from across the state showed an unmistakable trend over time: a steady decline in classroom vaccination rates.

The author called her local state assembly representative to ask whether the policy might be changed. When the outbreak began, the public was angry, and the state senator from Sacramento, Dr. Richard Pan, introduced legislation to eliminate the personal-belief exemption in an effort to raise classroom vaccination rates. The author went down the rabbit hole of the antivaccine movement, joining its groups, following its influencers, and spending hours each night looking at its memes. They set up a Facebook page and Twitter account under the name Vaccinate California, posting memes featuring cute kids and arguments making the case for why school shots matter.

The hashtag #SB277 emerged around Senator Pan's bill, which was dominated by anti-vaccine activists who attacked those supporting the bill. They deluged Facebook posts and Twitter replies, accusing them of being pharma-paid baby killers. They also used doxxing tactics, taking photos of supporters and reposting them on social media. Anti-vax activists made videos calling supporters medical fascists and followed outspoken supporters down the streets of Sacramento, posting their photos and location to incite harassment. They barraged practice ratings of physicians on our side with one-star reviews and called to scream at their receptionists.

The fight to pass the bill began in January 2015 and turned out to be a six-month battle that left the author deeply concerned about the growth and reach of the anti-vaccine movement. The mechanics of how the battle was fought were applicable to far more than one small political fight in California. There were bots, trolls, coordinated harassment brigades, doxxing, and Facebook pages run by God-knows-who. YouTube channels and secret Facebook groups with tens of thousands of members were dedicated to mobilizing online armies, gaming