{"id":25775,"date":"2017-03-31T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25775"},"modified":"2017-03-31T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:25:49","slug":"the-information-war-is-real-and-were-losing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25775","title":{"rendered":"The information war is real, and we\u2019re losing it"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/uw-professor-the-information-war-is-real-and-were-losing-it\/\">\u201cYour brain tells you<\/a> \u2018Hey, I got this from three different sources,\u2019\u2009\u201d she says. \u201cBut you don\u2019t realize it all traces back to the same place, and might have even reached you via bots posing as real people. If we think of this as a virus, I wouldn\u2019t know how to vaccinate for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starbird says she\u2019s concluded, provocatively, that we may be headed toward \u201cthe menace of unreality \u2014 which is that nobody believes anything anymore.\u201d Alex Jones, she says, is \u201ca kind of prophet. There really is an information war for your mind. And we\u2019re losing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>Starbird sighed. \u201cI used to be a techno-utopian. Now I can\u2019t believe that I\u2019m sitting here talking to you about all this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYour brain tells you \u2018Hey, I got this from three different sources,\u2019\u2009\u201d she says. \u201cBut you don\u2019t realize it all traces back to the same place, and might have even reached you via bots posing as real people. If we think of this as a virus, I wouldn\u2019t know how to vaccinate for it.\u201d Starbird [&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-25775","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\/25775","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=25775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25776,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25775\/revisions\/25776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}