{"id":71094,"date":"2019-04-18T07:01:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71094"},"modified":"2019-04-18T07:01:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:01:39","slug":"the-gatekeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71094","title":{"rendered":"The Gatekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I try, in my peasant-y way, to navigate the reefs and shoals of all the &#8220;fake news&#8221; the world throws before us, I&#8217;m thankful we&#8217;ve got gatekeepers like &#8220;Snopes.com&#8221; to do our thinking for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Q: Did U.S. Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> repeatedly guess &quot;free&quot; on the TV show &quot;The Price is Right?&quot;<br>A: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/95RRj4nSzs\">https:\/\/t.co\/95RRj4nSzs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L6KZTfjibR\">pic.twitter.com\/L6KZTfjibR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; snopes.com (@snopes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snopes\/status\/1117972182875897856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the American &#8220;Fact-Check&#8221; industry &#8211; guarding the ramparts of American intellectual integrity.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I try, in my peasant-y way, to navigate the reefs and shoals of all the &#8220;fake news&#8221; the world throws before us, I&#8217;m thankful we&#8217;ve got gatekeepers like &#8220;Snopes.com&#8221; to do our thinking for us. Q: Did U.S. Rep. @AOC repeatedly guess &quot;free&quot; on the TV show &quot;The Price is Right?&quot;A: https:\/\/t.co\/95RRj4nSzs pic.twitter.com\/L6KZTfjibR &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fact-check-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71095,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71094\/revisions\/71095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}