{"id":15759,"date":"2018-02-18T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T20:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=15759"},"modified":"2018-02-18T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T20:36:55","slug":"fake-news-is-an-existential-crisis-for-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/fake-news-is-an-existential-crisis-for-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake news is an existential crisis for social media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not sure why. I have a recipe for dealing with possible #FakeNews
\nFirst, just assume that everything you get from social media might be wrong. Start there. Then dig a little…actually read a few things. Check sources. Finally, ask people you trust…maybe people you know in RL, not just Facebook friends. Then be prepared to change your mind…just in case you were wrong.
\nAcceptance of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.<\/p>\n

The Article ‘Fake news is an existential crisis for social media’ originally appeared on https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/18\/fake-news-is-an-existential-crisis-for-social-media\/?ncid=rss<\/a>
\nJamie’s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not sure why. I have a recipe for dealing with possible #FakeNews First, just assume that everything you get from social media might be wrong. Start there. Then dig a little…actually read a few things. Check sources. Finally, ask people you trust…maybe people you know in RL, not just Facebook friends. Then be prepared to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-15759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12435,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/social-media-mocks-trump-for-making-up-sweden-attack\/","url_meta":{"origin":15759,"position":0},"title":"Social media mocks Trump for making up Sweden attack","date":"February 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The only fake news I see lately seems to be coming from the Whitehouse. #Sweden #BowlingGreen #Atlanta They are all false claims of Islamic terrorism to justify the administration's unconstitutional ban. 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