{"id":13577,"date":"2025-01-13T21:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T02:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=13577"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T02:51:12","slug":"lies-are-fires-we-must-work-to-put-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/lies-are-fires-we-must-work-to-put-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies are fires we must work to put out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Free Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/blog\/musk-disinformation-disasters\">reports<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Misleading claims about California\u2019s efforts to combat the fires ravaging greater Los Angeles have taken a nasty turn as prominent public figures like Elon Musk and Donald Trump have posted disinformation on online platforms to politicize the most destructive disaster in the city\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s gotten so bad that many officials focused on fighting the fires have had to divert time and resources to confront and fact check the scourge of lies about the disaster &#8230;. Disinformation is a form of looting, an attempt to pillage and distort the public record to sow chaos and serve political agendas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Pinocchio graphic by IndraWP under <strong><a href=\"ttps:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">CC BY-NC-ND 3.0<\/a><\/strong> license <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lies are fires we must work to put out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5526,"featured_media":13578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13580,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions\/13580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}