{"id":79,"date":"2016-11-13T02:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/?p=79"},"modified":"2016-11-13T02:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T02:03:38","slug":"did-facebook-have-an-influence-on-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/2016\/11\/13\/did-facebook-have-an-influence-on-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Facebook have an Influence on the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/files\/2016\/11\/th-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/files\/2016\/11\/th-2.jpg\" alt=\"th-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/files\/2016\/11\/th-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/files\/2016\/11\/th-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been a long and stressful week for America. As most of you know the Presidential Election ended on Tuesday night (Basically 2am in the morning). The outcome is not what everyone expected especially the people who run Facebook. A article from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/14\/technology\/facebook-is-said-to-question-its-influence-in-election.html\">New York Times<\/a>\u00a0talks about they think and how Facebook had its influence in the election.\u00a0Facebook has been in the eye of a post-election storm for the last few days, embroiled in accusations that it helped spread misinformation and fake news stories that influenced how the Americans were voting.<\/p>\n<p>I can see where people are coming from because I remember seeing on Facebook that Clinton had this in the bag but that wasn&#8217;t the case. For this election, the media has played a bigger deal then ever before. We have Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter and these social media sites can influence anyone&#8217;s decision. There is nothing we can do now. So, we need to unite as a country and hope for the best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long and stressful week for America. As most of you know the Presidential Election ended on Tuesday night (Basically 2am in the morning). The outcome is not what everyone expected especially the people who run Facebook. A article from the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0talks about they think and how Facebook had its influence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/angelicj251\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}