{"id":4219,"date":"2012-08-27T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T22:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2012-08-27T15:13:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T22:13:30","slug":"hijacking-the-news-how-hackers-are-manipulating-the-press-from-the-inside-out-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/08\/27\/hijacking-the-news-how-hackers-are-manipulating-the-press-from-the-inside-out-the-verge\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijacking the news: how hackers are manipulating the press from the inside out | The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But the hackers who planted fake news stories on Reuters&#8217;s website earlier this month weren&#8217;t doing it for fun. Reuters was caught in the middle of an &#8220;intensifying conflict in cyberspace between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,&#8221; in the words of one of its reporters, as hackers attempted to co-opt the news agency&#8217;s credibility in order to support government forces in the Syrian national conflict.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/8\/27\/3262608\/hacks-and-hackers-how-disinformation-is-the-new-hacktivist-weapon-of\">Hijacking the news: how hackers are manipulating the press from the inside out | The Verge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the hackers who planted fake news stories on Reuters&#8217;s website earlier this month weren&#8217;t doing it for fun. Reuters was caught in the middle of an &#8220;intensifying conflict in cyberspace between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,&#8221; in the words of one of its reporters, as hackers attempted to co-opt the news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/08\/27\/hijacking-the-news-how-hackers-are-manipulating-the-press-from-the-inside-out-the-verge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hijacking the news: how hackers are manipulating the press from the inside out | The Verge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}