{"id":41144,"date":"2024-10-07T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41144"},"modified":"2024-10-07T16:32:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:32:19","slug":"time-to-stop-and-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/07\/time-to-stop-and-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To Stop And Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 351px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/criticsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/santa_martians_feature-702x336.jpg?resize=341%2C163&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"163\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The reality of being a content-generator.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>As a very long-time user of social media, it&#8217;s a necessity, in my opinion, to stop and think about any hidden agendas those writers &#8211; let&#8217;s not call them content-generators, eh? &#8211; you&#8217;re reading, that you don&#8217;t know on a personal level, may hold. Why? Let Senator Kelly (D-AZ), retired American astronaut, and retired American Navy Captain, tell you:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senate Intelligence Committee member Mark Kelly warns of a \u201chuge\u201d misinformation campaign by foreign actors. After hearing from the FBI, DNI, and NSA, Kelly estimates that 20%-30% of the political content and comments on social media are generated by Russia, Iran, and China. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/98Vwb44TWI\">pic.twitter.com\/98Vwb44TWI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithboykin\/status\/1842975629995921781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Intelligence Committee member Mark Kelly warns of a \u201chuge\u201d misinformation campaign by foreign actors. After hearing from the FBI, DNI, and NSA, Kelly estimates that 20%-30% of the political content and comments on social media are generated by Russia, Iran, and China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>20-30% of political comment and contents is generated by our international adversaries? People who are not making honest arguments, providing factual information, discussing in proper American spirit &#8211; instead, poisoning the spirit of old-fashioned American discussion.<\/p>\n<p>My readers, do you pause to consider this possibility before stepping into a discussion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a very long-time user of social media, it&#8217;s a necessity, in my opinion, to stop and think about any hidden agendas those writers &#8211; let&#8217;s not call them content-generators, eh? &#8211; you&#8217;re reading, that you don&#8217;t know on a personal level, may hold. Why? Let Senator Kelly (D-AZ), retired \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/07\/time-to-stop-and-think\/\"> Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41146,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41144\/revisions\/41146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}