{"id":1187,"date":"2013-09-12T14:31:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T04:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2013-11-04T11:51:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:51:41","slug":"who-are-the-syrian-electronic-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/who-are-the-syrian-electronic-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Syrian Electronic Army?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re on the topic, here&#8217;s a great article from last month by Adrianne Jeffries at The Verge on the SEA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On May 4th, a series of odd tweets went out to the 5 million or so followers of the E! News Twitter account. &#8220;Exclusive! Justin Bieber to E! online: I\u2019m a gay,&#8221; read the first one. Then came a tweet about Angelina Jolie commenting on the Syrian revolution, another tweet about Bieber\u2019s homosexuality, then a triumphant admission: &#8220;The Syrian Electronic Army was here! Fans of @justinbieber, you have been trolled.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Depending on who you listen to, they&#8217;re either an extremely sophisticated hacking team or a 4 juvenile pranksters in their early twenties.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t deny their effectiveness though; their successful targets read like a who&#8217;s who of media, including Twitter, the New York Times, Associated Press, E!, CBS, NPR, the BBC and many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While we&#8217;re on the topic, here&#8217;s a great article from last month by Adrianne Jeffries at The Verge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[130,129,361],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}