{"id":40997,"date":"2022-03-30T22:11:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T22:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=40997"},"modified":"2022-03-30T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T22:11:05","slug":"facebook-using-smear-tactics-against-chinas-tiktok-us-news-report-saysunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=40997","title":{"rendered":"Facebook using smear tactics against China\u2019s TikTok, US news report saysUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostEleven years ago, Facebook was caught red-handed after it hired a prominent public relations firm to try to plant stories harshly criticising Google\u2019s privacy practices in leading news outlets. In 2018, it hired the PR firm Definers to do opposition research on the company\u2019s critics, including billionaire philanthropist George Soros. The company\u2019s long-time head of communications, Elliot Schrage, took the blame for approving the hiring of Definers and similar firms and left Facebook. On\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3172478\/facebook-using-smear-tactics-against-chinas-tiktok?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostEleven years ago, Facebook was caught red-handed after it hired a prominent public relations firm to try to plant stories harshly&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40997"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}