{"id":21014,"date":"2026-01-09T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21014"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:04:44","slug":"foreign-actors-turned-a-tragedy-into-an-information-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21014","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Actors Turned a Tragedy Into an Information Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lot of internet posts and comments about the ICE shooting are bots or foreign trolls trying to weaken America by riling up its people. Social media companies make money when these bots, trolls, and foreign adversaries are successful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Foreign Actors Turned a Tragedy Into an Information Weapon\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_crFFBfnJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of internet posts and comments about the ICE shooting are bots or foreign trolls trying to weaken America by riling up its people. Social media companies make money when these bots, trolls, and foreign adversaries are successful. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x_crFFBfnJo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,178,272,355,844,314,612,1996,134,315,1290,328,619],"class_list":["post-21014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-foreign","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-ice","tag-international-relations","tag-internet","tag-minnesota","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-shooting","tag-social-media","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21015,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21014\/revisions\/21015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}