{"id":41456,"date":"2025-07-26T11:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/beware-the-blizzard-of-lies-us-advice-on-how-to-handle-farages-trump-tactics-3\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T11:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:05:33","slug":"beware-the-blizzard-of-lies-us-advice-on-how-to-handle-farages-trump-tactics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/beware-the-blizzard-of-lies-us-advice-on-how-to-handle-farages-trump-tactics-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the blizzard of lies: US advice on how to handle Farage\u2019s Trump tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy campaigners suggest \u2018pre-buttal\u2019 is more powerful than factchecking in fighting falsehoods<\/p>\n<p>Truth, the progressive California politician Hiram Johnson once said, is the first casualty of war. His oft-cited remark was supposedly made in 1918 in reference to the first world war, which had by then caused millions of human casualties.<\/p>\n<p>More than a century later, truth is again caught in the crossfire, this time as a casualty of 21st-century culture wars.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jul\/26\/beware-the-blizzard-of-lies-us-advice-on-how-to-handle-farages-trump-tactics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-democracy campaigners suggest \u2018pre-buttal\u2019 is more powerful than factchecking in fighting falsehoods Truth, the progressive California politician Hiram Johnson once said, is the first casualty of war. His oft-cited remark was supposedly made in 1918 in reference to the first world war, which had by then caused millions of human casualties. More than a century [&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-41456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456","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=41456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}