{"id":12339,"date":"2017-06-29T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=12339"},"modified":"2017-06-29T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:09:35","slug":"the-age-of-distributed-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2017\/06\/29\/the-age-of-distributed-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Distributed Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smart post from Eugene Wei about how information gets distributed now, and things that were commonly known in specific circles (like a certain VC&#8217;s reputation for sexual harassment) become more widely known.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We live in the age of distributed truth, and it&#8217;s an environment in which fake news can spread like mold when in viral form. But the same applies to the truth, and if there&#8217;s one lesson on how to do your part in an age of distributed truth, it&#8217;s to speak the truth and to support those who do. It may be exhausting work\u2014is it really necessary to point out the emperor is buck naked?\u2014but it&#8217;s the best we can do for now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eugenewei.com\/blog\/2017\/6\/28\/the-truth-is-distributed\">The age of distributed truth \u2014 Remains of the Day<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart post from Eugene Wei about how information gets distributed now, and things that were commonly known in specific circles (like a certain VC&#8217;s reputation for sexual harassment) become more widely known. We live in the age of distributed truth, and it&#8217;s an environment in which fake news can spread like mold when in viral &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2017\/06\/29\/the-age-of-distributed-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Age of Distributed Truth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}