{"id":5504,"date":"2011-09-09T17:41:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T21:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5504"},"modified":"2011-09-09T18:46:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:46:24","slug":"astrotweeting-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/09\/09\/astrotweeting-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Astrotweeters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/politicaldictionary.com\/words\/astrotweeting\/\">astrotweet<\/a> &#8212; yet another reason not to believe (or spread) those <a href=\"http:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/?p=22918\">political tweets<\/a> littered all over Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The research on astrotweeting, though too tangential to my book, is worth flagging for readers. In this paper, the authors describe how political operatives set up fake accounts to spread rumors or false statements about candidates.  This is done in a way to make it appear as though the information is coming from numerous sources, to convey the impression that the information is reliable. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Limerick Ode To Astrotweeters<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Political op&#8217;rative geeks<br \/>\nUse various sneaky techniques.<br \/>\nThey spread lies via tweets:<br \/>\nAstrotweeting &#8212; those cheats<br \/>\nShould be jailed for their libelous leaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astrotweet &#8212; yet another reason not to believe (or spread) those political tweets littered all over Twitter: The research on astrotweeting, though too tangential to my book, is worth flagging for readers. In this paper, the authors describe how political operatives set up fake accounts to spread rumors or false statements about candidates. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,2,6,1661,258],"tags":[1658,192,349,194,373,1660,1659,1662,2829],"class_list":["post-5504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-law","category-political-limericks","category-social-media-satire","category-twitter","tag-astrotweet","tag-campaign-satire","tag-defamation","tag-election-humor","tag-legal-humor","tag-libel","tag-political-operatives","tag-social-media-poetry","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5504"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}