{"id":3901,"date":"2020-01-11T03:48:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T03:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=3901"},"modified":"2020-01-13T21:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:48:04","slug":"disinformation-for-hire-how-a-new-breed-of-pr-firms-is-selling-lies-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/01\/11\/disinformation-for-hire-how-a-new-breed-of-pr-firms-is-selling-lies-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a digest of the latest news on news and reporting from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/follow-us\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Pew Research Center<\/a>. One recently caught my interest was from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/craigsilverman\/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&#038;utm_campaign=e7dded641f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_07_02_10&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-e7dded641f-400857545\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buzzfeed on the new &#8220;Black PR firms&#8221;<\/a> who will, for a fee, generate, structure and support any lie you wish. Scary isn&#8217;t a strong enough word, terrifying is more apt. It takes the work done by Cambridge Analytical to a whole new dimension.<\/p>\n<p>My previous rant about analytics is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/02\/27\/analytics-and-politics\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, it contains numerous links to various sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a digest of the latest news on news and reporting from the Pew Research Center. One recently caught my interest was from Buzzfeed on the new &#8220;Black PR firms&#8221; who will, for a fee, generate, structure and support any lie you wish. Scary isn&#8217;t a strong enough word, terrifying is more apt. It &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/01\/11\/disinformation-for-hire-how-a-new-breed-of-pr-firms-is-selling-lies-online\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7,8,9,2308,11,13,14,17],"tags":[2415,2311,2402,2404,2414,2403,2406,2405,2412,637,2411,2407,2409,988,2399,2398,2408,2400,2413,2401,2397,2410,2396,1756],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-3901","6":"format-standard","7":"category-content","8":"category-ethical-and-green-living","9":"category-faits-divers","10":"category-feminism","11":"category-finanace","12":"category-future-of-work","13":"category-it-failures","14":"category-politics","15":"category-racism","16":"category-thinking-about","17":"post_tag-art-media","18":"post_tag-artifical-intelligence","19":"post_tag-black-pr","20":"post_tag-buzzfeed","21":"post_tag-catnet","22":"post_tag-cybersecurity","23":"post_tag-deception","24":"post_tag-deception-and-influence-operations","25":"post_tag-disinformation","26":"post_tag-facebook","27":"post_tag-fake-fact-checking","28":"post_tag-influence","29":"post_tag-intelligence","30":"post_tag-lies","31":"post_tag-marketing","32":"post_tag-online-manipulation","33":"post_tag-operation","34":"post_tag-pr","35":"post_tag-pragmatico","36":"post_tag-public-relations","37":"post_tag-spam","38":"post_tag-the-archimedes-group","39":"post_tag-the-reporter","40":"post_tag-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}