{"id":23172,"date":"2020-11-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/disinformation-middleware-has-become-something-of-a-blight#id28324"},"modified":"2020-11-12T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T15:00:00","slug":"disinformation-middleware-has-become-something-of-a-blight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/disinformation-middleware-has-become-something-of-a-blight\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation middleware has become \u201csomething of a blight.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know we said the other day that maybe the United States has turned <a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/whats-said-about-beirut-may-be-true-about-the-united-states-too\">into Lebanon<\/a>, but can it be Ukraine also?<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A couple of years ago I was talking to the news editor of a Ukrainian news provider. She described an exhausting and grim cycle of her reporters spending most of their time just reporting on disinformation campaigns. And here we are.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; emily bell (@emilybell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilybell\/status\/1326545134448648205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/disinformation-middleware-has-become-something-of-a-blight\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    We know we said the other day that maybe the United States has turned into Lebanon, but can it be Ukraine also?<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago I was talking to the news editor of a Ukrainian news provider. She described an exhausting and grim c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23174,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23172\/revisions\/23174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}