{"id":4009,"date":"2020-12-14T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2020-12-14T12:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:44:29","slug":"obama-the-internet-is-the-single-biggest-threat-to-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4009","title":{"rendered":"Obama: The internet is \u201cthe single biggest threat to our democracy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;you have a situation in which large swaths of the country genuinely believe that the Democratic Party is a front for a pedophile ring&#8230;I was talking to a volunteer who was going door-to-door in Philadelphia in low-income African American communities, and was getting questions about QAnon conspiracy theories.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what\u2019s true from what\u2019s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn\u2019t work. And by definition our democracy doesn\u2019t work.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2020\/11\/16\/21570072\/obama-internet-threat-democracy-facebook-fox-atlantic\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2020\/11\/16\/21570072\/obama-internet-threat-democracy-facebook-fox-atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;you have a situation in which large swaths of the country genuinely believe that the Democratic Party is a front for a pedophile ring&#8230;I was talking to a volunteer who was going door-to-door in Philadelphia in low-income African American communities, and was getting questions about QAnon conspiracy theories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what\u2019s true from what\u2019s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn\u2019t work. And by definition our democracy doesn\u2019t work.&#8221;<\/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":[431,1102,612,1029,556,306],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democracy","tag-information","tag-internet","tag-misinformation","tag-obama","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","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=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}