{"id":1873,"date":"2016-12-23T20:57:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T20:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2016-12-23T20:57:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T20:57:25","slug":"profit-behind-social-media-fake-news-and-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/12\/23\/profit-behind-social-media-fake-news-and-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Profit behind social media fake news and propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Banning fake-news sites doesn&#8217;t address the real problem: Social-media companies make big money off lies and hate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/fake-news-and-online-harassment-are-more-social-media-byproducts-theyre-powerful-profit\">Fake News and Online Harassment Are More Than Social Media Byproducts\u2014They&#8217;re Powerful Profit Drivers<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nThis is a good article and catches up with where we were a year ago!<br \/>\nBut like all articles on the topic, this one also leaves out mention of perhaps the largest for profit, online social-media based fake news publisher (nearly 4.8 million Facebook subscribers). I&#8217;ve mentioned them before &#8211; see if you can spot who is missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banning fake-news sites doesn&#8217;t address the real problem: Social-media companies make big money off lies and hate. Source: Fake News and Online Harassment Are More Than Social Media Byproducts\u2014They&#8217;re Powerful Profit Drivers This is a good article and catches up with where we were a year ago! But like all articles on the topic, this one also leaves out mention of perhaps the largest for profit, online social-media based fake news publisher (nearly 4.8 million Facebook subscribers). I&#8217;ve mentioned them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/12\/23\/profit-behind-social-media-fake-news-and-propaganda\/\"> 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":[38,42,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-propaganda-methods","category-social-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","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=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}