{"id":1494,"date":"2015-12-07T11:10:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2015-12-07T11:10:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:10:33","slug":"socialmedialies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2015\/12\/socialmedialies\/","title":{"rendered":"social media used to prank journalists during live event – again"},"content":{"rendered":"

“In the end, accounts of the shooting from @JewyMarie made it into reports from the AP (and The New York Times as a result), the International Business Times and an on-air interview with CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper. There is obviously a person behind @JewyMarie\u2019s Twitter account, but the person\u2019s accounts of events are fake. While embarrassing, the ordeal is a reminder that a person\u2019s word is not proof. People lie. Anonymous people on the Internet lie \u2013 a lot.”<\/p>\n

This is from a blog by the Society of Professional Journalists<\/a>. It’s an excellent caution for anyone looking for information during a breaking news event.<\/p>\n

What a great lesson this would be as part of the class on media literacy I long to teach…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In the end, accounts of the shooting from @JewyMarie made it into reports from the AP (and The New York Times as a result), the International Business Times and an on-air interview with CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper. There is obviously a person behind @JewyMarie\u2019s Twitter account, but the person\u2019s accounts of events are fake. While embarrassing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[568,815,870,306,650],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-relationsoutreach","tag-ethics","tag-hoax","tag-media-literacy","tag-misinformation","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-o6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}