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Doctor Mike

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The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Jim Jordan had, you know, after these allegations were made that we had censored 20 million tweets, we got a letter from Jim Jordan the next day saying he was opening an investigation into the vast censorship cabal, you know, the Bidenite censorship cabal.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

By the way, Trump administration ran the government in 2020, but nonetheless.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

the Biden censorship cabal that had interfered and somehow stolen the 2020 election.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Because that was where they took it.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

It went from they censored tweets in the 2020 election to these people at Stanford colluded with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI and all these other entities to steal the election from Trump.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

One of the things that they do is they reframe.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

In this case, it was people who had participated in claiming that the election was stolen, like Jim Jordan,

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

ran these investigations into those of us who had investigated and very carefully and meticulously documented the rumor mill and the propaganda machine around the 2020 election.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Again, in these reports that were done publicly at the time, not government funded research, you know, all of the, we had a Twitter account live at the time, a blog, 220 page report sat on the internet for two years.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

All of this stuff was, we thought, quite transparent.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Nonetheless, it turned into subpoenas and lawsuits and two years of investigations.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Stanford paid, you know, I can say this because it came out in congressional testimony, four million or so in legal fees.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

That's not a lot for Stanford, but, you know, it's a lot in general.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

And ultimately decided that it, that this was,

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

you know, not worth it maybe.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

Even though you were looking at more than just politics, right?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

This is the problem.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

This is the thing, right?

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

So the election work, like I mentioned at the start of our chat, we were doing child safety work, spam scams, state actors, I mean, AI research.

The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Why Stanford Dismantled Her Research Program | Renee DiResta

We did a ransomware project.