{"id":670075,"date":"2020-10-15T10:10:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T14:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=670075"},"modified":"2020-10-15T10:10:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T14:10:03","slug":"the-anatomy-of-a-covid-19-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=670075","title":{"rendered":"The anatomy of a COVID-19 conspiracy theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s widely believed that social media conspiracy theories are driven by malicious and anonymous &#8220;bots&#8221; set up by shadowy third parties. But my new research \u2013 which examined an extremely successful COVID-19 conspiracy theory\u2014has shown that ordinary citizen accounts can be just as culpable when it comes to spreading dangerous lies and misinformation.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-10-anatomy-covid-conspiracy-theory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The anatomy of a COVID-19 conspiracy theory<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s widely believed that social media conspiracy theories are driven by malicious and anonymous &#8220;bots&#8221; set up by shadowy third parties. But my new research \u2013 which examined an extremely&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670075","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670075\/revisions"}],"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=670075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}