{"id":3124,"date":"2012-11-01T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:46","slug":"if-you-cant-beat-em-subvert-em-countering-misinformation-on-the-viral-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/01\/if-you-cant-beat-em-subvert-em-countering-misinformation-on-the-viral-web\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can&#8217;t Beat &#8216;Em, Subvert &#8216;Em: Countering Misinformation on the Viral Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/12\/10\/if-you-cant-beat-em-subvert-em-countering-misinformation-on-a-viral-web\/264366\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/carousel2_615.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Madrigal (of The Atlantic) on his recipe for countering misinformation on the viral web:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;I decided to do the only thing that seemed likely to help, in some small way:\u00c2\u00a0create content that would A) counter the misinformation, B) have authority, and C) be as viral as the bad information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/10\/sorting-the-real-sandy-photos-from-the-fakes\/264243\/\">results<\/a> as he wrestles with the fake photos going viral, post Sandy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/12\/10\/if-you-cant-beat-em-subvert-em-countering-misinformation-on-a-viral-web\/264366\/\">If You Can&#8217;t Beat &#8216;Em, Subvert &#8216;Em: Countering Misinformation on the Viral Web &#8211; Alexis C. Madrigal &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Madrigal (of The Atlantic) shares his recipe for countering misinformation on the viral web.<\/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":[723,697,681,724,385],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-alexis-madrigal","tag-misinformation","tag-the-atlantic","tag-viral-web","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","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=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10003,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/10003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}