{"id":22275,"date":"2016-02-17T22:47:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T06:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/cancer-cons-phoney-accidents-and-fake-deaths-meet-the-internet-hoax-buster"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:53:56","slug":"cancer-cons-phoney-accidents-and-fake-deaths-meet-the-internet-hoax-buster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/cancer-cons-phoney-accidents-and-fake-deaths-meet-the-internet-hoax-buster","title":{"rendered":"Cancer cons, phoney accidents and fake deaths: meet the internet hoax buster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cancer-cons-phoney-accidents-and-fake-deaths-meet-the-internet-hoax-buster.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet the Internet Troll &amp; Con Slayer \u2014 Taryn Wright. No trolls or con can stay hidden long with Taryn and her team on the case.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The long read: After Taryn Wright exposed an elaborate fake tragedy on Facebook, she found herself leading a squad of online detectives \u2013 but on the internet, it doesn\u2019t take long for a crowd to become a mob.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/feb\/18\/cancer-cons-phoney-accidents-fake-deaths-internet-hoax-buster-taryn-wright\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Internet Troll &amp; Con Slayer \u2014 Taryn Wright. No trolls or con can stay hidden long with Taryn and her team on the case. The long read: After Taryn Wright exposed an elaborate fake tragedy on Facebook, she found herself leading a squad of online detectives \u2013 but on the internet, it doesn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62820,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions\/62820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}