{"id":11036,"date":"2020-11-15T20:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T20:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=11036"},"modified":"2020-11-15T20:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T20:55:42","slug":"the-viral-social-media-propaganda-poster-that-started-this-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/11\/15\/the-viral-social-media-propaganda-poster-that-started-this-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"The viral social media propaganda poster that started this web site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been studying and observing social media propaganda since early 2014 and blogging my observations to a private blog that no one could see.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2016, I saw a propaganda poster &#8211; which was spectacularly false!<\/p>\n<p>Yet this poster was shared thousands and thousands of times on social media! People believed anything they saw on social media.<\/p>\n<p>This poster confirmed my observation that social media had become the world&#8217;s most extensive, frictionless platform for the spread of propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>This, then, was the birth of this blog &#8211; as it was not long after that I began making public posts.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/02\/28\/the-most-spectacular-example-of-social-media-propaganda-so-far\/\">The most spectacular example of social media propaganda \u2013 so far! \u2013 Social Panic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blast from the past: the social media propaganda poster that led to the birth of this blog and web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,17,24,25,26,28,36,38,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherry-picking","category-emotion","category-facts","category-in-practice","category-internet-meme","category-lies","category-logical-fallacy","category-politics","category-propaganda-methods","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}