{"id":21249,"date":"2026-07-24T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=21249"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:05:07","slug":"mediausa-today-admits-to-having-hallucinated-a-story-they-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/07\/24\/mediausa-today-admits-to-having-hallucinated-a-story-they-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Media:USA Today admits to having hallucinated a story they published"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-416-473x1024.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-416-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-416-277x600.png 277w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-416-768x1664.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-416-709x1536.png 709w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-416-125x270.png 125w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-416.png 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why report news when you can just publish stuff you made up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,355,29,30,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-mill-crap","category-content-mill-click-bait","category-media","category-media-propaganda","category-misinformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249","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=21249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21251,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21249\/revisions\/21251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}