{"id":90737,"date":"2025-09-09T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90737"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:36:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:36:45","slug":"how-flames-of-french-political-crisis-are-being-fanned-by-foreign-bot-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/how-flames-of-french-political-crisis-are-being-fanned-by-foreign-bot-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"How flames of French political crisis are being fanned by foreign bot networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k7Az77q11iVsvoDOm2s\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nIn the midst of France&#8217;s political crisis, low trust in politics and politicians is creating fertile ground for fake news stories to spread. An anti-government campaign calling for a nationwide shutdown on September 10 is being pushed and manipulated by bots, likely controlled by a foreign entity. We take a closer look in this edition of Truth or Fake.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of France&#8217;s political crisis, low trust in politics and politicians is creating fertile ground for fake news stories to spread. An anti-government campaign calling for a nationwide shutdown on September 10 is being pushed and manipulated by bots, likely controlled by a foreign entity. We take a closer look in this edition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[38365,407,2539],"class_list":["post-90737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-foreign-bot-networks","tag-french","tag-political-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90738,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90737\/revisions\/90738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}