{"id":5449,"date":"2024-03-23T22:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T22:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/apologies-for-kategate-but-will-the-spirit-of-restraint-on-social-media-last-4\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T22:01:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T22:01:41","slug":"apologies-for-kategate-but-will-the-spirit-of-restraint-on-social-media-last-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/apologies-for-kategate-but-will-the-spirit-of-restraint-on-social-media-last-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologies for Kategate \u2013 but will the spirit of restraint on social media last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Princess of Wales\u2019s cancer diagnosis has put a stop to the internet\u2019s wilder conspiracy theories, but it could be temporary<\/p>\n<p>After Friday\u2019s filmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2024\/mar\/22\/catherine-princess-of-wales-statement-cancer-diagnosis-treatment\">statement from the Princess of Wales<\/a>, it is now TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X, formerly Twitter, who are in the dock. This weekend thousands of individual users have expressed contrition over the conspiracy theories they aired and the boss of X herself tried to reposition her platform by urging compassion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA brave message delivered by Princess Kate with her signature grace,\u201d CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino, posted, adding, \u201cHer request for privacy, to protect her children and allow her to move forward (without endless speculation) seems like a reasonable request to respect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2024\/mar\/23\/princess-of-wales-social-media-apologies-for-kategate-will-restraint-last\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Princess of Wales\u2019s cancer diagnosis has put a stop to the internet\u2019s wilder conspiracy theories, but it could be temporary After Friday\u2019s filmed statement from the Princess of Wales, it is now TikTok, Facebook, Instagram and X, formerly Twitter, who are in the dock. This weekend thousands of individual users have expressed contrition over [&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-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","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=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}