{"id":4905,"date":"2020-03-31T02:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T06:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/?p=4905"},"modified":"2020-05-24T21:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T01:56:20","slug":"a-social-media-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/2020\/03\/31\/a-social-media-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Social Media Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/NLM_socialmedia_250p.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/NLM_socialmedia_250p.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/wp-content\/uploads\/NLM_socialmedia_250p-165x93.jpeg 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>March 31, 2020<\/em>,\u00a0<em>by Sissel McCarthy,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsliteracymatters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">News Literacy Matters<\/a><\/em><br><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Misinformation about COVID-19 is still spreading almost as fast as the coronavirus itself.&nbsp;&nbsp;People are understandably anxious for news about how to stay safe amid the pandemic, but many are turning to a double-headed hydra of misinformation: social media and their immediate personal networks.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/newsliteracymatters.com\/2020\/03\/31\/a-social-media-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 31, 2020,\u00a0by Sissel McCarthy,\u00a0News Literacy Matters Misinformation about COVID-19 is still spreading almost as fast as the coronavirus itself.&nbsp;&nbsp;People are understandably anxious for news about how to stay safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-news-and-tips","category-contagion-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4905\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}