{"id":50887,"date":"2015-07-19T21:42:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T21:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/5_tips_for_spotting_fake_news-how_not_to_embarrass_yourself_or_enable_inte\/"},"modified":"2015-07-19T21:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T21:42:42","slug":"5_tips_for_spotting_fake_news-how_not_to_embarrass_yourself_or_enable_inte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50887","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips for Spotting Fake News&#8211;How not to embarrass yourself or enable internet trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Among other recent fake stories was this shocker, allegedly from NBC News: \u201cChristian Pastor in Vermont Sentenced to One Year in Prison After Refusing to Marry Gay Couple.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Only the story wasn\u2019t from NBC. It was from NBC.com.co\u201d\u201da fake website, filled with ads, and hosted on an overseas website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all too gullible,\u201d\u009d warned my friend, Ed Stetzer, this week.<\/p>\n<p>Hoax stories like these are likely to become more common as hoaxers become more sophisticated, warned Dan Gillmor, a journalism professor at Arizona State who specializes in digital media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2015\/july-web-only\/5-tips-for-spotting-fake-news.html\">Read it all<\/a> from Bob Smietana at CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among other recent fake stories was this shocker, allegedly from NBC News: \u201cChristian Pastor in Vermont Sentenced to One Year in Prison After Refusing to Marry Gay Couple.\u201d\u009d Only the story wasn\u2019t from NBC. It was from NBC.com.co\u201d\u201da fake website,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50887\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,175,94,168,89,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-anthropology","category-blogging-the-internet","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-media","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}