{"id":312090,"date":"2017-05-08T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e8bb8c3c49bfa2a1fea73a570271caea"},"modified":"2017-05-08T07:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:50:01","slug":"opinion-technology-once-thought-the-enabler-of-democracy-is-threatening-to-kill-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=312090","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Technology, once thought the enabler of democracy, is threatening to kill it off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy has entered a new phase marked by hacking by foreign states and fake stories shared on social media aimed at damaging political parties.<br \/>\nThe social media companies have so far been mostly incapable, or unwilling, to do anything about the fact that a large part of the dissemination of this &#8220;fake news&#8221; has been through automated software programs posting on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy has entered a new phase marked by hacking by foreign states and fake stories shared on social media aimed at damaging political parties.<br \/>\nThe social media companies have so far been mostly incapable, or unwilling, to do anything about the fa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312091,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312090\/revisions\/312091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}