{"id":89758,"date":"2021-03-23T12:29:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=36d1d0cb161a8ddaa5489ee26489a0d5"},"modified":"2021-03-23T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:29:09","slug":"border-invasion-mexican-maga-influencers-push-damaging-conspiracy-theories-about-asylum-seekers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/23\/border-invasion-mexican-maga-influencers-push-damaging-conspiracy-theories-about-asylum-seekers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Invasion? Mexican MAGA Influencers Push &#8220;Damaging&#8221; Conspiracy Theories About Asylum Seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/3\/23\/mexican_conspiracy_theorists_jean_guerrero\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/12\/57112\/w320\/SEG2-Mexican-MAGA-1.jpg\" alt=\"Seg2 mexican maga 1\" \/><\/a><p>As thousands of asylum seekers continue to wait in Mexico for a chance to enter the United States, investigative journalist Jean Guerrero says Mexican social media influencers connected to right-wing U.S. media outlets and political figures are whipping up &#8220;hysteria&#8221; about the southern border. She says they are spreading false conspiracy theories about an orchestrated &#8220;invasion&#8221; and &#8220;child trafficking&#8221; funded by Democrats that are endangering vulnerable people. &#8220;It&#8217;s been incredibly damaging,&#8221; says Guerrero.<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/3\/23\/mexican_conspiracy_theorists_jean_guerrero\">Democracy Now!<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As thousands of asylum seekers continue to wait in Mexico for a chance to enter the United States, investigative journalist Jean Guerrero says Mexican social media influencers connected to right-wing U.S. media outlets and political figures are whipping up &#8220;hysteria&#8221; about the southern border. She says they are spreading false conspiracy theories about an orchestrated &#8220;invasion&#8221; and &#8220;child trafficking&#8221; funded by Democrats that are endangering vulnerable people. &#8220;It&#8217;s been incredibly damaging,&#8221; says Guerrero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89759,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89758\/revisions\/89759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}