{"id":5539,"date":"2023-08-05T16:43:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2023-08-05T16:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:43:39","slug":"social-media-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/08\/05\/social-media-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/valent-projects.com\/news-and-insights\/evidence-of-online-manipulation-in-uk-public-debate\/\">Viktor Dimas, Valent Projects, Evidence of Online Manipulation in UK public Debate<\/a> &#8220;We now know why that is; the manipulation taking place in the UK is much more sophisticated than the hashtag spamming you might find in Africa or the Middle East. The effort to undermine ULEZ that we examine below is just the tip of the iceberg&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Interesting discussion on social media\/ULEZ manipulation issues on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RestIsPolitics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RestIsPolitics<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RoryStewartUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RoryStewartUK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/campbellclaret?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@campbellclaret<\/a> \u2026 important questions for those of us exploring social media impact and influence. I\u2019ll take a dive into <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/valent_projects?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@valent_projects<\/a> report soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nv6JS6NReM\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nv6JS6NReM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary Bunt (@garybunt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garybunt\/status\/1687839348794793984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the link to the Rest is Politics programme that highlights this issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: 158. Sunak&amp;apos;s net zero culture war, Africa&amp;apos;s &amp;apos;coup belt&amp;apos;, and a new strategy for the German far-right\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2jx4JzB7TugsFkE9Sb9UEo?si=Y3OEpMfNS3K4PYq27OY5SA&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viktor Dimas, Valent Projects, Evidence of Online Manipulation in UK public Debate &#8220;We now know why that is; the manipulation taking place in the UK is much more sophisticated than the hashtag spamming you might find in Africa or the Middle East. The effort to undermine ULEZ that we examine below is just the tip&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,486,594,200],"tags":[596,595,237,74,78],"class_list":["post-5539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-spring","category-disinformation","category-media-manipulation","category-podcasts","tag-arab-spring-2","tag-media-manipulation","tag-podcasts","tag-politics","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5540,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5539\/revisions\/5540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}