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Letter to the Editor re: ‘I Wrote a Book About Censorship. Then People Tried to Censor It.’
“There was no plot to censor his book review,” writes Renée DiResta. (Ernst Haas via Getty Images)
My response to Jacob Siegel’s piece in ‘The Free Press.’
By Renée DiResta
04.10.26 — Free Speech
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To the editors:

On March 31, The Free Press published an article by Jacob Siegel accusing “people” of trying to “censor” his book reviews. Your email newsletter to subscribers led with this story, calling it a “surreal” case in which a review of his book was “purged” from the magazine The Baffler after “a person mentioned in the text requested a correcti…

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Renée DiResta
Renée DiResta is an Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown. She researches online disinformation, and previously worked with the Stanford Internet Observatory.
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