{"id":11303,"date":"2023-08-24T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T05:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/facebook-groups-exposed-to-hundreds-of-hoax-posts-study-shows\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T05:37:15","slug":"facebook-groups-exposed-to-hundreds-of-hoax-posts-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/facebook-groups-exposed-to-hundreds-of-hoax-posts-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook groups exposed to hundreds of hoax posts, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charity Full Fact finds more than 1,200 false posts on topics from deadly snakes to serial killers at large<\/p>\n<p>Members of local Facebook groups have been exposed to hundreds of hoax posts, including false reports of missing children or deadly snakes on the loose, a study shows.<\/p>\n<p>The fact-checking charity Full Fact found more than 1,200 false posts on the social media site\u2019s community groups across the world, and warned that these were probably just \u201cthe tip of the iceberg\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/aug\/24\/local-facebook-groups-hoax-posts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/85f886b770698df037f3d1c95511d4862c5a9543\/0_26_3543_2126\/master\/3543.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e738dd34c336d89e7d8bd4d46fac41e7\" title=\"Facebook groups exposed to hundreds of hoax posts, study shows\" \/>Charity Full Fact finds more than 1,200 false posts on topics from deadly snakes to serial killers at large<br \/>\nMembers of local Facebook groups have been exposed to hundreds of hoax posts, including false reports of missing children or deadly snakes on the loose, a study shows.<br \/>\nThe fact-checking charity Full Fact found more than 1,200 false posts on the social media site\u2019s community groups across the world, and warned that these were probably just \u201cthe tip of the iceberg\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charity Full Fact finds more than 1,200 false posts on topics from deadly snakes to serial killers at large Members of local Facebook groups have been exposed to hundreds of hoax posts, including false reports of missing children or deadly snakes on the loose, a study shows. The fact-checking charity Full Fact found more than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/facebook-groups-exposed-to-hundreds-of-hoax-posts-study-shows\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook groups exposed to hundreds of hoax posts, study shows<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}