{"id":240,"date":"2022-09-22T09:19:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=240"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:23:04","slug":"facebooks-anti-vax-carrot-emoji-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/09\/22\/facebooks-anti-vax-carrot-emoji-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s anti-vax carrot emoji, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sea.mashable.com\/tech\/21422\/facebooks-anti-vax-carrot-emoji-explained\">Mashable<\/a> &#8211; This is why your uncle has carrot emojis in his Twitter handle. To avoid censorship for the spread of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0misinformation, anti-vax groups on\u00a0Facebook\u00a0have begun coding their messages with the carrot emoji, according to a report from the BBC. The emoji is used in place of the word \u201cvaccine\u201d to avoid the wrath of Facebook\u2019s automated moderator algorithms.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"gwgSM  q  fvZ\">gwgSM  q  fvZ<\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mashable &#8211; This is why your uncle has carrot emojis in his Twitter handle. To avoid censorship for the spread of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0misinformation, anti-vax groups on\u00a0Facebook\u00a0have begun coding their messages with the carrot emoji, according to a report from the BBC. The emoji is used in place of the word \u201cvaccine\u201d to avoid the wrath of Facebook\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}