{"id":13715,"date":"2023-05-20T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T15:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=13715"},"modified":"2023-05-20T18:51:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T18:51:35","slug":"fake-news-florida-hit-by-empty-shelves-in-protests-at-desantis-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/05\/20\/fake-news-florida-hit-by-empty-shelves-in-protests-at-desantis-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News?: &#8220;Florida hit by empty shelves in protests at DeSantis crackdown&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/us\/1771659\/Florida-empty-shelves-DeSantis-s-immigrant-crackdown\">Florida hit by empty shelves in protests at DeSantis crackdown | US | News | Express.co.uk<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Daily Mail UK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12094909\/Truckers-strike-Florida-sees-grocery-shelves-left-bare.html\">Trucker&#8217;s strike in Florida sees grocery shelves left bare | Daily Mail Online<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/video-shows-empty-grocery-shelves-amid-floridas-anti-immigrant-bill\/ar-AA1bcGO6\">Video Shows Empty Grocery Shelves Amid Florida&#8217;s Anti-Immigrant Bill (Newsweek)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reality: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/empty-shelves-immigrants-desantis-law-florida-7b32302acf6febbdced66c35b7d53817\">FACT FOCUS: Videos of empty store aisles are unrelated to Florida\u2019s immigration bill | AP News<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE FACTS: While both clips show Florida stores, neither has anything to do with the new law or a boycott. One is from October and shows shortages during Hurricane Ian, while another shows a recent refrigeration issue at a single Walmart Supercenter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2023\/may\/18\/tiktok-posts\/theres-no-evidence-shelves-in-florida-grocery-stor\/\">PolitiFact | There&#8217;s no evidence shelves in Florida grocery store are empty because of a truckers\u2019 boycott<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/fact-check-videos-empty-store-aisles-unrelated-florida-immigration-bill\/\">Fact Check: Videos of empty store aisles are unrelated to Florida&#8217;s immigration bill &#8211; CBS Miami (cbsnews.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goshennews.com\/news\/national_news\/fact-focus-videos-of-empty-store-aisles-are-unrelated-to-florida-s-immigration-bill\/article_53f6c088-50ee-5b20-9332-76d6195996a9.html\">FACT FOCUS: Videos of empty store aisles are unrelated to Florida\u2019s immigration bill | National News | goshennews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Professional&#8221; media sourcing to anonymous items on social media tends to end badly. That&#8217;s amateur level blogging, not news reporting. There are reasons the media no longer has any credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous media reports, all sourced to social media posts, say Florida has food shortages due to Gov. Desantis&#8217; policies. But they are showing photos and videos of empty store shelves that occurred in the past after hurricanes, or one video showed empty refrigerated goods section at Walmart. That actually happened &#8211; but it was due to a malfunctioning refrigeration system so food was temporarily removed while the unit was undergoing repairs. &#8220;Professional&#8221; media sourcing to anonymous items on social media tends to end badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-misinformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}