{"id":12810,"date":"2024-06-10T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/crank-tory-candidates-accused-of-sharing-online-conspiracy-theories-2\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:04:16","slug":"crank-tory-candidates-accused-of-sharing-online-conspiracy-theories-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/crank-tory-candidates-accused-of-sharing-online-conspiracy-theories-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crank\u2019 Tory candidates accused of sharing online conspiracy theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour has expressed concerns about the calibre of would-be Tory MPs after a some shared outlandish views online<\/p>\n<p>The Conservative party has been accused of becoming a home for \u201ccranks\u201d after some of its candidates at the general election were revealed to have shared conspiracy theories on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The posts seen by the <em>Observer<\/em> include the suggestion that positive tests for Covid-19 were \u201cmass psychosis at work\u201d and that the Black Lives Matter movement might be an attempt to \u201cbring down British society\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/article\/2024\/jun\/09\/crank-tory-candidates-accused-of-sharing-online-conspiracy-theories\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour has expressed concerns about the calibre of would-be Tory MPs after a some shared outlandish views online The Conservative party has been accused of becoming a home for \u201ccranks\u201d after some of its candidates at the general election were revealed to have shared conspiracy theories on social media. The posts seen by the Observer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}