{"id":715,"date":"2020-01-09T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/?p=715"},"modified":"2020-01-09T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T20:35:15","slug":"facebook-and-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the political ads are going to start ramping up exponentially from here out, I believe this to be pretty important to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don&#8217;t believe every ad you see on Facebook. Facebook seems to have chosen to be the center of political disinformation, and will shortly become an even worse cesspool of debate. I can only imagine that you&#8217;ll start to see these ads shared to other social media platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharing an ad from Facebook to another platform (other than being obnoxious) disguises the ad as a post, and makes it appear as though it&#8217;s your opinion. If you share misinformation across platforms, you are nothing more than a disease or virus infecting other social media spaces that have announced they will work to lessen the amount of misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I agree with what most will say: Do your own research when looking at political campaigns, because it is an extremely toxic environment. Don&#8217;t be a person who forms opinions based off of reading headlines. Please, don&#8217;t be shallow of knowledge in a subject you intend to speak up about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t really care much for politics, to be honest, but I do care about people being manipulated. For the most part, all I see from almost every political campaign is social manipulation, and it truly sours my livelihood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not care about your political affiliation, you will have your opinions and I will have mine, that&#8217;s how this democracy is supposed to work. We work together to find terms we can agree on, it&#8217;s not the best, and it can&#8217;t be perfect, but it&#8217;s better than living in a dystopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the political ads are going to start ramping up exponentially from here out, I believe this to be pretty important to share. Don&#8217;t believe every ad you see on Facebook. Facebook seems to have chosen to be the center of political disinformation, and will shortly become an even worse cesspool of debate. I can [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}