[LOGOS] Terrible news about the Stanford Internet Observatory

Thu Jun 20 12:15:00 PDT 2024

I've been a collaborator with Renee DiResta, who was the Stanford Internet
Observatories former research manager and has written a lot about
misinformation and online policies. This recent piece she wrote in The
Atlantic gets into it:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/cia-renee-censorship-conspiracy-twitter/678688/

Also, Kate Starbird, a prof. at UWash's I-School, has, for a while now,
discussed on X and Bluesky her and her UWash colleagues' experiences with
this Commission also chasing after them, bogging them down with FOIA
requests, and spinning their research work.

Looking at the lawsuit of (Surgeon General) Murthy v. Iowa that kicked mud
on SIO, while it is unclear how the federal government will fare on this
one, SIO is not named as a defendant (having only provided technical
insight to the government like university researchers do, but got cited a
lot in the government's work). Notably, there are some really fringe
partisan organizations that submitted Amicus briefs in support of the
plaintiff--for example, The Claremont Institute and America's Frontline
Doctors (a quack medical org. which was/is led by Simone Gold, a
misinfo-peddling doctor who was recently convicted for her January 6
activities at the Capital). When the The Manhattan Institute is among the
more credible orgs on a list, that's not a good sign. =)

Rich
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM Michail Faloutsos via LOGOS <
logos at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Log at rithms seems great.
> The shutting down of the Stanford Int Observatory sounds horrific!
> Though you never know until you hear all the facts, government suing a
> research center
> sounds Orwellian.
>
> Michalis
>
> Emiliano De Cristofaro via LOGOS wrote on 6/14/24 6:18 AM:
>
> As long as we're not logorrheic
>
> --
> Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro
> Computer Science and Engineering
> University of California, Riverside
> https://emilianodc.com
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 7:11 PM Kevin M Esterling via LOGOS <
> logos at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Ok, I can agree to "Log at rithms"
>>
>>
>>
>> Kevin M. Esterling (he/him)
>> Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
>> Director, Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy
>> (TeCD-Lab)
>> https://tecd-lab.ucr.edu/
>> UC Riverside
>> Riverside, CA 92521
>> 951-827-5591
>> https://profiles.ucr.edu/kevin.esterling
>>
>>
>> What happened when Twitter deplatformed 70,000 misinformation traffickers?
>> <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07524-8>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Emiliano De Cristofaro <emilianodc at cs.ucr.edu>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, June 13, 2024 6:16 PM
>> *To:* Shaun Bowler <shaun.bowler at ucr.edu>
>> *Cc:* Kevin M Esterling <kevin.esterling at ucr.edu>; Logos Listserv (BCOE)
>> <logos at lists.ucr.edu>
>> *Subject:* Re: [LOGOS] Terrible news about the Stanford Internet
>> Observatory
>>
>> Log at rithms is just perfect.
>>
>> --
>> Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro
>> Computer Science and Engineering
>> University of California, Riverside
>> https://emilianodc.com
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 6:16 PM Shaun Bowler via LOGOS <
>> logos at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Log at rithms ?
>>
>> Sent from a phone. Please excuse typos, brevity and related errors
>>
>>
>> Shaun Bowler
>> Department of Political Science
>> UC Riverside
>> CA 92521
>>
>> On Jun 14, 2024, at 2:14 AM, Kevin M Esterling via LOGOS <
>> logos at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>>
>> Actually no not at all - everyone has been writing logarithms and it
>> doesn’t make as much sense as logorithms so I’m trying to correct course
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jun 13, 2024, at 6:07 PM, Richard Carpiano <richard.carpiano at ucr.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Good catch. My error! I agree.
>>
>> _____________________________________
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>> University of California, Riverside
>> School of Public Policy
>> 900 University Avenue
>> Riverside, California USA 92521
>>
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>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 6:00 PM Kevin M Esterling via LOGOS <
>> logos at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> It sounds like Stanford tired of paying their legal fees.
>>
>> Also btw - a string protest from me. It should be “logorithms” not
>> “logarithms”
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jun 13, 2024, at 5:02 PM, Richard Carpiano via LOGOS <
>> logos at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Hi Logarithms,
>>
>> Not sure if you saw this terrible news, but it is relevant to our
>> work/initiative... If you aren't aware of them, the Stanford Internet
>> Observatory team produced some terrific work on online misinformation that
>> bridged the academic, public, and policy spheres. I understand
>> misinformation researchers at the University of Washington were also caught
>> up in this harassing, McCarthy-esque investigation.
>>
>>
>> https://www.platformer.news/stanford-internet-observatory-shutdown-stamos-diresta-sio/?ref=platformer-newsletter
>>
>> Best,
>> Rich
>> _________________________________________________
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