{"id":77,"date":"2019-03-09T18:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2018-09-03T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T13:10:25","slug":"how-to-trust-the-media-again-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"How to Trust the Media Again? Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABCnews.com.co; Bloomberg.ma; DC Gazette; The Boston Tribune. These are just some names of fake news sites, which rely on gullible readers thinking they&#8217;re on genuine portals thanks to the similarity between their names and actual news outlets (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\">Bloomberg<\/a> would have, for instance, a .com after its brand, not a .ma).<\/p>\n<p>One solid way to discover you&#8217;re sending traffic to a false site is to check whether these sites have a Wikipedia profile (The Wall Street Journal does; a <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/rahul-chakraborty-460018-unsplash-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/rahul-chakraborty-460018-unsplash-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/rahul-chakraborty-460018-unsplash-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/rahul-chakraborty-460018-unsplash-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/rahul-chakraborty-460018-unsplash-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/rahul-chakraborty-460018-unsplash-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>site like Liberal Society doesn&#8217;t), as pointed out in other parts of this site. Or better yet, if you&#8217;re ever in doubt, scroll to the bottom of the page, find a map for the site and\/or look out for an About Us section. The listed informations about the company that&#8217;s behind a site will always be vague at best, referring to parent companies nobody has heard about (for instance: ABC News will always refer to Disney Company, and link to it). Obviously, a false news site can also lie about who it belongs to &#8211; but it&#8217;s pretty easy to check that.<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it: one surefire way to trust the media again is to investigate what you read daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABCnews.com.co; Bloomberg.ma; DC Gazette; The Boston Tribune. These are just some names of fake news sites, which rely on gullible readers thinking they&#8217;re on genuine portals thanks to the similarity between their names and actual news outlets (Bloomberg would have, for instance, a .com after its brand, not a .ma). One solid way to discover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oltremedianews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}