{"id":40618,"date":"2017-10-27T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40618"},"modified":"2017-10-26T21:36:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T01:36:02","slug":"the-revival-of-the-paranoid-style-in-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/the-revival-of-the-paranoid-style-in-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The revival of the paranoid style in social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Clinton presidency, the conspiracy theorists were limited to the reach of their printed-and-mailed newsletters and fringe radio to spread the word (because so relatively few people were online yet). By the time George W. Bush was president, the paranoia had gone digital but had switched sides &#8230; now it was the left&#8217;s turn to fret about shadowy quasi-governmental organizations amassing arms caches and plotting to throw everyone into prison camps. Then Obama was elected, and the far-right conspiracy theorists re-emerged, bringing in the racist fringe to spice up the crazy. Now Trump is president, and both left <em>and<\/em> right are free to get their total paranoia on. This is a wonderful example of the type:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">extremely good facebook post <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hIBwyRpcF5\">pic.twitter.com\/hIBwyRpcF5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; kill \ud83d\udc80 tim \ud83d\udc80 faust (@crulge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crulge\/status\/923659252132139009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colby Cosh<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Clinton presidency, the conspiracy theorists were limited to the reach of their printed-and-mailed newsletters and fringe radio to spread the word (because so relatively few people were online yet). By the time George W. Bush was president, the paranoia had gone digital but had switched sides &#8230; now it was the left&#8217;s turn [&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":[158,127,1037,668,456,593],"class_list":["post-40618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-conspiracytheories","tag-donaldtrump","tag-georgewbush","tag-hysteria","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-az8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40618","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=40618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40619,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40618\/revisions\/40619"}],"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=40618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}