{"id":38596,"date":"2017-05-19T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38596"},"modified":"2017-05-18T13:06:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T17:06:36","slug":"common-sense-soapbox-1-fake-news-is-old-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/common-sense-soapbox-1-fake-news-is-old-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Soapbox #1: Fake News is Old News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8nbdcnQ_fqY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 18 May 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;Fake News&#8221; gets thrown around all the time, but what is it?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s just a phrase people use to to discredit information or sources they don&#8217;t like. But there are also people who spread misinformation to further their own agenda. So how do you avoid getting stuck in a bubble without being a victim of misinformation?<\/p>\n<p>We give you 5 helpful tips on how to spot Fake News, and use a skeptical eye to assess information.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Seamus Coughlin &#038; Sean W. Malone<br \/>\nAnimated by Seamus Coughlin<\/p>\n<p>Check out FEE.org: <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/fake-news-is-old-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/fake-news-is-old-news\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 18 May 2017 The term &#8220;Fake News&#8221; gets thrown around all the time, but what is it? Sometimes it&#8217;s just a phrase people use to to discredit information or sources they don&#8217;t like. But there are also people who spread misinformation to further their own agenda. So how do you avoid getting stuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[1085,58,213,101],"class_list":["post-38596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-fakenews","tag-internet","tag-newspapers","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a2w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38597,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38596\/revisions\/38597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}