{"id":2757,"date":"2016-12-07T17:49:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:49:25","slug":"from-trump-to-pizzagate-internet-is-geyser-of-malinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2757","title":{"rendered":"From Trump to Pizzagate, Internet is geyser of malinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2758\" style=\"width: 137px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2758\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/161207Pierce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"137\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Pierce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Dec. 7, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you do a Google search right now for \u2018McMartin preschool tunnels,\u2019 you will be inundated with \u2018studies\u2019 and \u2018reports\u2019 that \u2018prove\u2019 the tunnels did exist, and that the lurid fictions prompted out of the children by ambitious social workers were therefore true. Nothing dies on the Internet, not even the most arrant lunacy&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of [Donald Trump\u2019s] primary surrogates, Scottie Nell Hughes, told an NPR panel that \u2018There&#8217;s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.\u2019 But we have not \u2018entered\u2019 an age of post-truth politics. We&#8217;ve been living in it for years. The Executive Branch of the government just has been slow to catch up. Now, it&#8217;s right there with the rest of us, god help the country. We&#8217;re all just the children of McMartin now. We&#8217;ll say anything we&#8217;re told until we come to believe it ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/news\/a51248\/pizzagate-conspiracy-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\">America Was Always a Nation of Conspiracy Theorists. Now, They&#8217;re Simply More Dangerous: Lessons from Pizzagate<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Charles P. Pierce in Esquire (Dec. 5)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 7, 2016 \u201cIf you do a Google search right now for \u2018McMartin preschool tunnels,\u2019 you will be inundated with \u2018studies\u2019 and \u2018reports\u2019 that \u2018prove\u2019 the tunnels did exist, and that the lurid fictions prompted out of the children by ambitious social workers were therefore true. Nothing dies on the Internet, not even the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}