{"id":1180936,"date":"2023-09-11T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1180936"},"modified":"2023-09-11T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:54:00","slug":"salacious-chinese-disinformation-campaign-blames-maui-fires-on-deadly-american-weather-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1180936","title":{"rendered":"Salacious Chinese Disinformation Campaign Blames Maui Fires on Deadly American &#039;Weather Weapon&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><video poster=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636\/6a12fa215a8bb66011cd04e996d52cbd.jpg\" loop=\"\" autoplay=\"\" muted=\"\" playsinline=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Researchers say they\u2019ve discovered 85 social media accounts and blogs originating from China and working in tandem to amplify a conspiracy theory claiming the <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/maui-fires-are-harming-with-hawaii-s-prized-coral-reefs-1850752128\">deadly fires in Maui<\/a> were caused by a secretive \u201cweather weapon\u201d unleashed by the US military. NewsGuard, which has previously uncovered other online influence\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/weather-weapon-maui-fires-china-disinformation-1850826548\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Gizmodo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/weather-weapon-maui-fires-china-disinformation-1850826548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salacious Chinese Disinformation Campaign Blames Maui Fires on Deadly American &#8216;Weather Weapon&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say they\u2019ve discovered 85 social media accounts and blogs originating from China and working in tandem to amplify a conspiracy theory claiming the deadly fires in Maui were caused by a secretive \u201cweather weapon\u201d unleashed by the US military. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1180936\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,110],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1180936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-gizmodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}