Renée DiResta studies adversarial abuse online, ranging from state actors running influence operations, to spammers and scammers, to issues related to child safety. She is the author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality. From 2019-2024 she was the Technical Research Manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, a cross-disciplinary program of research, teaching and policy engagement for the study of abuse in current information technologies.