{"id":10803,"date":"2017-10-14T15:47:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T13:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/14\/how-russia-used-social-media-to-divide-americans\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T13:47:11","slug":"how-russia-used-social-media-to-divide-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=10803","title":{"rendered":"How Russia used social media to divide Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian trolls and bots focused on controversial topics in an effort to stoke political division on an enormous scale \u2013 and it hasn\u2019t stopped, experts sayFor the past year, the world has reeled over escalating reports of how Russia \u201chacked\u201d the 2016 US presidential election, by stealing emails from Democrats, attacking voter registration lists and voting machines and running a social media shell game. Related: Facebook must &#8216;follow the money&#8217; to uncover extent of Russian meddling | Diana Pilipenko Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/oct\/14\/russia-us-politics-social-media-facebook\" target=\"_blank\">How Russia used social media to divide Americans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian trolls and bots focused on controversial topics in an effort to stoke political division on an enormous scale \u2013 and it hasn\u2019t stopped, experts sayFor the past year, the world has reeled over escalating reports of how Russia \u201chacked\u201d the 2016 US presidential election, by stealing emails from Democrats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}