{"id":30437,"date":"2019-02-04T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=30437"},"modified":"2019-02-04T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T19:48:00","slug":"fake-news-and-viral-social-battles-in-the-17th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2019\/02\/04\/fake-news-and-viral-social-battles-in-the-17th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake news and viral social battles in the 17th century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They may have taken place at a much slower pace &#8212; months or even years instead of minutes or hours &#8212; but the 17th century saw its share of social warfare and accusations of &#8220;fake news.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/articles\/XDdj3BAAAMRtGdkL\">Christy Henshaw writes<\/a>\u00a0at the Wellcome Collections website about an argument that took several years to play out. And the subject? Whether or not one Richard Dugdale was possessed by a demon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewingramblog.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/10\/fake-news-in-the-17th-century-wellcome-collection.png?w=443\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fake-news-in-the-17th-century-wellcome-collection.png 443w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/fake-news-in-the-17th-century-wellcome-collection-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They may have taken place at a much slower pace &#8212; months or even years instead of minutes or hours &#8212; but the 17th century saw its share of social warfare and accusations of &#8220;fake news.&#8221; Christy Henshaw writes\u00a0at the Wellcome Collections website about an argument that took several years to play out. And the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2019\/02\/04\/fake-news-and-viral-social-battles-in-the-17th-century\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fake news and viral social battles in the 17th century&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30437","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=30437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}