{"id":14682,"date":"2021-07-04T05:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T03:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=14682"},"modified":"2021-07-04T05:58:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T03:58:45","slug":"false-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=14682","title":{"rendered":"Stopping the spread of False Information&#x2122;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14684\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/iran-air-flight-655-facebook-false-information-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/iran-air-flight-655-facebook-false-information-1.jpg 862w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/iran-air-flight-655-facebook-false-information-1-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/iran-air-flight-655-facebook-false-information-1-768x919.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 862px) 100vw, 862px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/observador.pt\/factchecks\/fact-check-eua-nao-pediram-desculpa-por-abaterem-um-aviao-comercial-iraniano-em-1988\/?fbclid=IwAR2N0B0n28eku4qwL97R3KTCt116FHfxrbKd3c86ep6pwe5xhpeOz41S15o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14683\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/iran-air-flight-655-facebook-false-information-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1009\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/iran-air-flight-655-facebook-false-information-2.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/iran-air-flight-655-facebook-false-information-2-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/iran-air-flight-655-facebook-false-information-2-768x789.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1009px) 100vw, 1009px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen you read the discussion on the linked page you discover that the &#8222;partly false information&#8220; involves the statement &#8222;America refused to apologise&#8220;. The Observador post points out <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">George Bush<\/span> was not president at the time he said he would never apologize, he was vice-president, running for president, and therefore his statement did not represent an official statement from the US, whereas Reagan, president at the time, did issue a statement of regret. Wikipedia has <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran_Air_Flight_655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion<\/a> of the fact Reagan&#8217;s statement was explicitly\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>a formal apology.<\/p>\n<p>The Observador objection would seem like ludicrous quibbling and Facebook&#8217;s action absurd were it not for the reality that some significant segment of the US population sees Facebook as an arbiter of truth.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-14682-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GHW-Bush_-_I-dont-care-what-the-facts-are_.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GHW-Bush_-_I-dont-care-what-the-facts-are_.mp4\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GHW-Bush_-_I-dont-care-what-the-facts-are_.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-14682-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" poster=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1230px-George_H._W._Bush_and_Margaret_Thatcher_cropped.jpg\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Soho-Hippychick.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Soho-Hippychick.mp4\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Soho-Hippychick.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you read the discussion on the linked page you discover that the &#8222;partly false information&#8220; involves the statement &#8222;America refused to apologise&#8220;. The Observador post points out George Bush was not president at the time he said he would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=14682\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}