{"id":25793,"date":"2018-01-28T01:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T00:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/28\/the-big-tech-backlash\/"},"modified":"2018-01-28T01:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T00:05:04","slug":"the-big-tech-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=25793","title":{"rendered":"The big tech backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants are drawing political fire over fake news and Russian meddlingNicholas Terry understands the internet\u2019s darker side better than most. A history lecturer at Exeter University, Terry is an expert on antisemitism and runs a blog examining Holocaust denial and its dissemination online.\u201cYou\u2019ve got three separate phenomena converging,\u201d he says. \u201cOne is the fake news stuff, promulgated by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, which is trying to promote specific false stories in real time for immediate impact; second, there\u2019s the ideological bubble \u2013 people only reading leftwing or rightwing news sites; and then there\u2019s this effort by fringe movements on Holocaust denial to make their websites look respectable and to hoodwink readers&nbsp;into thinking what they\u2019re reading is OK.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/jan\/28\/tech-backlash-facebook-google-fake-news-business-monopoly-regulation\" target=\"_blank\">The big tech backlash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants are drawing political fire over fake news and Russian meddlingNicholas Terry understands the internet\u2019s darker side better than most. A history lecturer at Exeter University, Terry is an expert on antisemitism and runs a blog examining Holocaust denial and its dissemination online.\u201cYou\u2019ve got three separate phenomena converging,\u201d he [&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-25793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25793","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=25793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}