{"id":17133,"date":"2012-10-30T22:02:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T02:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17133"},"modified":"2012-10-30T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T02:02:54","slug":"comfortablysmug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17133","title":{"rendered":"comfortablysmug"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2012\/10\/dont-mess-with-twitter.html'>[I]n the chaos<\/a> around Hurricane Sandy, [@comfortablysmug tried] to trick his media followers, and their followers and readers in turn, with fake news. He reported, falsely, on a total blackout in Manhattan, on a flood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and other things that didn\u2019t happen. Two of his tweets garnered more than 500 retweets. One drew a rebuke from ConEd\u2019s official Twitter account. Twitter\u2019s self-correction mechanism \u2014 rebukes and rebuttals from knowledgeable sources \u2014 shut down each rumor, but not until at least one, the flood claim, had bled widely into the television media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I]n the chaos around Hurricane Sandy, [@comfortablysmug tried] to trick his media followers, and their followers and readers in turn, with fake news. He reported, falsely, on a total blackout in Manhattan, on a flood on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and other things that didn\u2019t happen. Two of his tweets garnered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}