{"id":551,"date":"2021-02-17T17:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/how-governments-were-left-playing-catch-up-on-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T17:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:43:39","slug":"how-governments-were-left-playing-catch-up-on-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/how-governments-were-left-playing-catch-up-on-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"How governments were left playing catch-up on misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The growth and spread of misinformation poses a fundamental threat to Australian society, experts say. The government\u2019s cautious approach to countering it won\u2019t work<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/feb\/16\/how-australia-became-fertile-ground-for-misinformation-and-qanon\">Australia: fertile ground for misinformation and QAnon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Michael Marom steers his Telstra-branded company car past the site of a planned 5G tower on the streets of Mullumbimby, it draws a now predictable response.<\/p>\n<p>Someone is watching, always, and news of his presence quickly ripples through the faithful.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/feb\/18\/how-governments-were-left-playing-catch-up-on-misinformation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/62bf0bbb74c541fec9300773cd3eecc7c5e47fb3\/0_300_4500_2700\/master\/4500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=899754e224c4300561744ac4ef1e85d3\" title=\"How governments were left playing catch-up on misinformation\" \/>The growth and spread of misinformation poses a fundamental threat to Australian society, experts say. The government\u2019s cautious approach to countering it won\u2019t work<br \/>\nAustralia: fertile ground for misinformation and QAnon<br \/>\nWhen Michael Marom steers his Telstra-branded company car past the site of a planned 5G tower on the streets of Mullumbimby, it draws a now predictable response.<br \/>\nSomeone is watching, always, and news of his presence quickly ripples through the faithful. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth and spread of misinformation poses a fundamental threat to Australian society, experts say. The government\u2019s cautious approach to countering it won\u2019t work Australia: fertile ground for misinformation and QAnon When Michael Marom steers his Telstra-branded company car past the site of a planned 5G tower on the streets of Mullumbimby, it draws a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/how-governments-were-left-playing-catch-up-on-misinformation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How governments were left playing catch-up on misinformation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":552,"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\/551"}],"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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}