{"id":39325,"date":"2025-05-29T16:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/how-social-media-lies-fuelled-a-rush-to-war-between-india-and-pakistan-23\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:04:56","slug":"how-social-media-lies-fuelled-a-rush-to-war-between-india-and-pakistan-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/how-social-media-lies-fuelled-a-rush-to-war-between-india-and-pakistan-23\/","title":{"rendered":"How social media lies fuelled a rush to war between India and Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disinformation spread to mainstream channels in what experts call deliberate \u2018informational warfare\u2019<\/p>\n<p>As missiles and drones crisscrossed the night skies above India and Pakistan earlier this month, another invisible war was taking place.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after the Indian government announced Operation Sindoor, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/06\/pakistan-vows-to-retaliate-after-wave-of-indian-missiles-hit-country\">military offensive against Pakistan<\/a> triggered by a militant attack in Kashmir that Delhi blamed on Islamabad, reports of major Pakistani defeats began to circulate online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/may\/28\/how-social-media-lies-fuelled-a-rush-to-war-between-india-and-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disinformation spread to mainstream channels in what experts call deliberate \u2018informational warfare\u2019 As missiles and drones crisscrossed the night skies above India and Pakistan earlier this month, another invisible war was taking place. Not long after the Indian government announced Operation Sindoor, the military offensive against Pakistan triggered by a militant attack in Kashmir that [&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-39325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39325","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=39325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}