{"id":136496,"date":"2020-03-17T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/17\/coronavirus-government-criticised-over-delay-in-setting-up-fake-news-unit\/"},"modified":"2020-03-17T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:55:00","slug":"coronavirus-government-criticised-over-delay-in-setting-up-fake-news-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=136496","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Government criticised over delay in setting up fake news unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve known since January about deliberate attempts to spread fear and falsehoods on social media about coronavirus, with potentially serious outcomes,&#8217; says DCMS committee chairman<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/coronavirus-fake-news-government-boris-johnson-covid-19-disinformation-a9405091.html\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus: Government criticised over delay in setting up fake news unit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We&#8217;ve known since January about deliberate attempts to spread fear and falsehoods on social media about coronavirus, with potentially serious outcomes,&#8217; says DCMS committee chairman Via: Coronavirus: Government criticised over delay in setting up fake news unit<\/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-136496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136496","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=136496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}