{"id":10758,"date":"2020-07-18T21:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=10758"},"modified":"2020-07-18T21:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T21:23:14","slug":"one-guy-creates-viral-social-media-hoaxes-stirring-up-the-right-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/07\/18\/one-guy-creates-viral-social-media-hoaxes-stirring-up-the-right-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"One guy creates viral social media hoaxes, stirring up the right-wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;ve been saying for years &#8211; propagandists no longer need a printing press or a broadcast license &#8211; just some social media accounts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Post examination of Rahuba&#8217;s activities provides a rare inside look at the work of <strong>a homegrown troll who uses social media to stoke partisan division. It shows that in an era of heightened sensitivity about disinformation campaigns carried out by foreign nations, bad-faith actors with far fewer resources can also manipulate public discourse and affect events in the real world.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/fake-flag-burning-at-gettysburg-was-only-the-latest-hoax-by-a-pennsylvania-man-1.637904\/troll-3-1.637906\">troll 3 &#8211; U.S. &#8211; Stripes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like duh! &#8220;&#8230;in an era of heightened sensitivity about disinformation campaigns carried out by foreign nations, bad-faith actors with far fewer resources can also manipulate public discourse and affect events in the real world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}