{"id":3014,"date":"2012-08-27T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:48","slug":"hijacking-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/27\/hijacking-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijacking the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/8\/27\/3262608\/hacks-and-hackers-how-disinformation-is-the-new-hacktivist-weapon-of\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jeffrey_goldfarb_post_large_verge_medium_landscape.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be forewarned, you seekers of information&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this month, hackers took over one of <em>Reuters&#8217;s<\/em> Twitter accounts and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/reuters-twitter-account-hacked-7000002142\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent out eight fake tweets<\/a>, including &#8220;Obama signs executive order banning any further investigation of 9\/11&#8221; and &#8220;White house spokesperson says financial and technical support given to #AlQaeda operatives in #Syria.&#8221; The account was shut down. Hackers then broke into the agency&#8217;s blogging platform on two separate occasions and posted short, realistic &#8220;reports&#8221; of fake news that favored the Syrian government in its ongoing clashes with the rebel Free Syrian Army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/8\/27\/3262608\/hacks-and-hackers-how-disinformation-is-the-new-hacktivist-weapon-of\">Hijacking the news: how hackers are manipulating the press from the inside out | The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers are manipulating the press from the inside out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[697,698,129],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-misinformation","tag-propoganda","tag-spuriousinformation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10015,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/10015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}