{"id":18188,"date":"2022-06-30T18:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=18188"},"modified":"2022-06-30T18:54:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:54:16","slug":"authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=18188","title":{"rendered":"Authenticity &#x1f455;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/29\/fact-checking-movement-grapples-with-world-awash-false-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anneapplebaum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anne Applebaum<\/a>, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and former columnist for <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">The Washington Post<\/span> who now writes for the Atlantic, warned attendees that the traditional fact check \u2014 in which individual claims by politicians or advocacy groups are vetted for accuracy \u2014 may not be adequate in a world in which a government such as Russia\u2019s not only tells a single lie but has spent years laying the groundwork for \u201ca whole elaborate narrative\u201d to undercut the idea of a sovereign Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA fact isolated from context, whether it\u2019s true or false, is almost meaningless,\u201d Applebaum said. \u201cYou have to explain it or tell it as part of a story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has striven to demonstrate his authenticity \u2014 wearing T-shirts and shunning the trappings of power \u2014 to effectively counter the \u201ccontrived fake world\u201d of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s government. She said his efforts have been especially effective in the West, but less so in countries in Africa and Asia where Russian propaganda has deeper roots and faces less pushback.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post: Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and former columnist for The Washington Post who now writes for the Atlantic, warned attendees that the traditional fact check \u2014 in which individual claims by politicians or advocacy groups are vetted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=18188\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}