{"id":13051,"date":"2022-11-18T21:43:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T21:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=13051"},"modified":"2023-03-30T03:19:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T03:19:56","slug":"spin-why-misinformation-didnt-wreck-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/11\/18\/spin-why-misinformation-didnt-wreck-the-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"Spin: Why misinformation didn&#8217;t wreck the midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, we were told by multiple &#8220;sides&#8221; that misinformation and disinformation on social media threw election results.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, oddly, everyone is pretending the same misinformation and disinformation no longer is an issue &#8211; which is not very believable. And then spin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The amount of content we saw that you could call kind of election disinformation was actually larger than what we saw in 2020 \u2014 but overall, the effects were much more muted,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/11\/18\/misinformation-midterms-experts\">Why misinformation didn&#8217;t wreck the midterms<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, it may just be that most people no longer believe anyone or anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, we were told by multiple &#8220;sides&#8221; that misinformation and disinformation on social media threw election results. Two years later, oddly, everyone is pretending the same misinformation and disinformation no longer is an issue &#8211; which is not very believable. And then spin: &#8220;The amount of content we saw that you could call kind of election disinformation was actually larger than what we saw in 2020 \u2014 but overall, the effects were much more muted,&#8221; Source: Why misinformation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2022\/11\/18\/spin-why-misinformation-didnt-wreck-the-midterms\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29,30,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051","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=13051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}