{"id":1319,"date":"2016-06-26T22:12:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T22:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2016-06-26T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T22:12:06","slug":"brexit-2nd-referendum-petition-said-to-be-a-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/06\/26\/brexit-2nd-referendum-petition-said-to-be-a-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit \u20182nd Referendum Petition\u2019 said to be a prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The petition that was supposedly blasting through 3 million signatures 3 days after the Brexit vote, is acknowledged to have been filled with fraudulent signatures added by bots.<br \/>\nSource: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/heatst.com\/uk\/exclusive-brexit-2nd-referendum-petition-a-4-chan-prank-bbc-report-it-as-real\/\">EXCLUSIVE: Brexit \u20182nd Referendum Petition\u2019 A 4 Chan Prank: BBC Report It As Real\u00a0|\u00a0Heat Street<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nThe BBC has updated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36634407\">their news report <\/a>to indicate the petition may\u00a0contain &#8220;suspicious activity&#8221; and that fraudulently added signatures have been identified.<br \/>\n<em>Fake news runs rampant thanks to social media enabling anyone and everyone to become a propagandist!<\/em><br \/>\nFake news is always common after an &#8220;event&#8221;. \u00a0So far, we have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The not really a spike, &#8220;spike in Brits searching for \u00a0What is the EU?&#8221; fraud<\/li>\n<li>The fake 2nd referendum petition fraud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have examples of similar frauds that have occurred during or after other events. Time permitting, I will post some of these soon &#8211; they illustrate how easy it is, particularly with social media, to bend reality and influence populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The petition that was supposedly blasting through 3 million signatures 3 days after the Brexit vote, is acknowledged to have been filled with fraudulent signatures added by bots. Source: EXCLUSIVE: Brexit \u20182nd Referendum Petition\u2019 A 4 Chan Prank: BBC Report It As Real\u00a0|\u00a0Heat Street The BBC has updated their news report to indicate the petition may\u00a0contain &#8220;suspicious activity&#8221; and that fraudulently added signatures have been identified. Fake news runs rampant thanks to social media enabling anyone and everyone to become&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/06\/26\/brexit-2nd-referendum-petition-said-to-be-a-prank\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,36,38,42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-lies","category-politics","category-propaganda-methods","category-social-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","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=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}