{"id":292392,"date":"2026-04-20T23:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=292392"},"modified":"2026-04-20T23:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:37:16","slug":"against-wall-e-fication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=292392","title":{"rendered":"Against WALL-E-Fication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having dinner with a group of students at an elite university recently, when the conversation turned to social media. They felt it was terrible for them, but also that they could not resist it. They knew it was more-or-less brainwashing them, delivering products designed to &#8220;engage&#8221; them with rage-bait and conspiracy theories&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/04\/20\/against_wall-e-fication_697323.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having dinner with a group of students at an elite university recently, when the conversation turned to social media. They felt it was terrible for them, but also that they could not resist it. They knew it was more-or-less brainwashing them, delivering products designed to &#8220;engage&#8221; them with rage-bait and conspiracy theories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/292393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292392"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=292392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}