{"id":12363,"date":"2017-10-25T15:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/25\/downright-orwellian-journalists-count-cost-of-facebooks-impact-on-democracy\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:46:47","slug":"downright-orwellian-journalists-count-cost-of-facebooks-impact-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12363","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Downright Orwellian&#039;: journalists count cost of Facebook&#039;s impact on democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media professionals in countries such as Guatemala and Slovakia fear for effect Facebook\u2019s news feed changes will have on their already fragile politicsFacebook has been criticised for the worrying impact on democracy of its \u201cdownright Orwellian\u201d decision to run an experiment seeing professional media removed from the main news feed in six countries.The experiment, which began 19 October and is still ongoing, involves limiting the core element of Facebook\u2019s social network to only personal posts and paid adverts. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/25\/facebook-orwellian-journalists-democracy-guatemala-slovakia\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Downright Orwellian&#039;: journalists count cost of Facebook&#039;s impact on democracy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media professionals in countries such as Guatemala and Slovakia fear for effect Facebook\u2019s news feed changes will have on their already fragile politicsFacebook has been criticised for the worrying impact on democracy of its \u201cdownright Orwellian\u201d decision to run an experiment seeing professional media removed from the main news feed [&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-12363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363","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=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}