{"id":55023,"date":"2014-09-06T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55023"},"modified":"2014-09-06T08:55:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T12:55:30","slug":"isis-twitter-misinformation-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55023","title":{"rendered":"ISIS Twitter misinformation campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=55024\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55024\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIS-twitter-hoax-US-Army-300x164.jpg?resize=300%2C164\" alt=\"ISIS-twitter-hoax-US-Army\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIS-twitter-hoax-US-Army.jpg?resize=300%2C164&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIS-twitter-hoax-US-Army.jpg?resize=500%2C274&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIS-twitter-hoax-US-Army.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/mediaequalizer.com\/brian-maloney\/2014\/09\/who-is-behind-this-sinister-isis-us-army-hoax\">Media Equalizer<\/a> which reports that ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State is using photoshopped images like the one above to deflect criticism from their atrocities, blaming the horrors on Americans who are fighting with them;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the latest example, ISIS terrorists have been re-branded as American soldiers committing massacres while wearing Muslim garb. It\u2019s a way of deflecting away blame for their atrocities. In America, it has fooled many on Twitter and elsewhere, so it could be considered a success so far. It has spread rapidly today.<\/p>\n<p>But it is absolutely a hoax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The original photo sans tattoo (from the Daily Telegraph) is at the link above. I haven&#8217;t seen any of the pictures on social media, but I don&#8217;t doubt that they&#8217;re out there. So the war against the troops is coming home on our computer screens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to Media Equalizer which reports that ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State is using photoshopped images like the one above to deflect criticism from their atrocities, blaming the horrors on Americans who are fighting with them; In the latest example, ISIS terrorists have been re-branded as American soldiers committing massacres while wearing Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ISIS-twitter-hoax-US-Army.jpg?fit=600%2C329&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ejt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}