{"id":341771,"date":"2017-12-31T03:07:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T02:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-attributes-twitter-use-to-fighting-media\/"},"modified":"2017-12-31T03:07:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T02:07:49","slug":"presstv-trump-attributes-twitter-use-to-fighting-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-attributes-twitter-use-to-fighting-media\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump attributes Twitter use to fighting media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has described his frequent use of social media sites as an essential means to fight back against \u201cdishonest and unfair\u201d press coverage, many of which he dismissed as \u201cpure fiction.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I use Social Media not because I like to, but because it is the only way to fight a VERY dishonest and unfair &#8216;press,&#8217; now often referred to as Fake News Media,&#8221; Trump wrote in a Saturday tweet, adding, &#8220;Phony and non-existent &#8216;sources&#8217; are being used more often than ever. Many stories &amp; reports a pure fiction!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s latest tweet came following a report published by <em>The New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0detailing how the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began to launch a counterintelligence probe into the Trump presidential campaign during the country\u2019s 2016 election. That report cited several current and former\u00a0American as well as foreign officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is while the US president has regularly clashed with the mainstream&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/31\/547307\/US-President-Donald-Trump-social-media-tweet-messages-unfair-media\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has described his frequent use of social media sites as an essential means to fight back against \u201cdishonest and unfair\u201d press coverage, many of which he dismissed as \u201cpure fiction.\u201d &#8220;I use Social Media not because I like to, but because it is the only way to fight a VERY dishonest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341771","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=341771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}