{"id":145890,"date":"2015-04-16T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T16:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/target\/bloggers-compared-to-isis-during-congressional-hearing\/"},"modified":"2015-04-16T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T16:31:12","slug":"bloggers-compared-to-isis-during-congressional-hearing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/bloggers-compared-to-isis-during-congressional-hearing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting The Seed For The Next Bogeyman: \u2018Bloggers\u2019 Compared to ISIS During Congressional Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\">Bloggers, conspiracy theorists and people who challenge establishment narratives on the Internet were all likened to ISIS terrorists during a chilling Congressional hearing which took place yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing, hosted by the House Foreign Relations Committee, was titled \u201cConfronting Russia\u2019s Weaponization of Information,\u201d and accused Russian state broadcaster RT of weaponizing \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d to spread propaganda. One of the speakers giving testimony was former RT host Liz Wahl, who made a public spectacle of quitting Russian state media last year in an incident stage-managed by neo-con James Kirchick , himself a former employee of Radio Free Europe \u2014 a state media outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Remarking that the Internet provided a platform for \u201cfringe voices and extremists,\u201d Wahl characterized people who challenge establishment narratives as a \u201ccult\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey mobilize and they feel they\u2019re part of some enlightened fight against the establishment\u2026.they find a platform to voice their deranged views,\u201d said Wahl. Referring to comments made in January by US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) chief Andrew Lack, who characterized RT as a threat on the same level as ISIS and Boko Haram, Wahl said the comparison was justified.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2LzvuiLbUvM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chairman Royce Questions Witnesses at Hearing on Confronting Russia&#039;s Weaponization of Information\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2LzvuiLbUvM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/bloggers-compared-to-isis-during-congressional-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloggers, conspiracy theorists and people who challenge establishment narratives on the Internet were all likened to ISIS terrorists during a chilling Congressional hearing which took place yesterday. The hearing, hosted by the House Foreign Relations Committee, was titled \u201cConfronting Russia\u2019s Weaponization of Information,\u201d and accused Russian state broadcaster RT of weaponizing \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d to spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-politics","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}