{"id":39034,"date":"2021-11-18T21:15:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/18\/social-media-creating-virus-of-lies-says-nobel-winner-maria-ressa"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:15:52","slug":"social-media-creating-virus-of-lies-says-nobel-winner-maria-ressa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39034","title":{"rendered":"Social media creating virus of lies, says Nobel winner Maria Ressa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino journalist and peace prize laureate says sites are biased against facts and in need of overhaul<\/p>\n<p>Social media platforms are biased against facts and creating \u201ca virus of lies\u201d that threatens all democracies, the Nobel peace prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa has said.<\/p>\n<p>Ressa, one of the Philippines\u2019 most prominent journalists, said social media platforms were \u201cmanipulating our minds insidiously, creating alternate realities, making it impossible for us to think slow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/18\/social-media-creating-virus-of-lies-says-nobel-winner-maria-ressa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino journalist and peace prize laureate says sites are biased against facts and in need of overhaulSocial media platforms are biased against facts and creating \u201ca virus of lies\u201d that threatens all democracies, the Nobel peace prize-winning journal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,763,71,236,687,351,240,238,1655,55,235,824,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-awards-and-prizes","category-culture","category-digital-media","category-facebook","category-internet","category-maria-ressa","category-media","category-nobel-peace-prize","category-philippines","category-social-media","category-social-networking","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39034\/revisions\/39035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}