{"id":1945,"date":"2016-05-12T07:18:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T11:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2016-05-12T07:18:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T11:18:15","slug":"how-to-circulate-a-fake-election-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/05\/how-to-circulate-a-fake-election-map\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Circulate a Fake Election Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fake-uk-elections\"<\/a> BuzzFeed<\/em>\u2019s Jim Waterson calls out a map making the social media rounds<\/a> that purports to show the results of the 2016 local elections in the U.K. Only it doesn’t. It’s\u00a0apparently being spread by Labour supporters keen to defend their party’s performance in the elections and convinced their party is\u00a0receiving unfair media treatment\u2014and of course, people tend to believe what they want to believe. Waterson goes on to show how to make a fake map of your very own. [Thierry Gregorius<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously:\u00a0When Maps Lie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BuzzFeed\u2019s Jim Waterson calls out a map making the social media rounds that purports to show the results of the 2016 local elections in the U.K. Only it doesn’t. It’s\u00a0apparently being spread by Labour supporters… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,330],"tags":[237,349,71],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-map-errors","category-politics","tag-map-literacy","tag-social-media","tag-uk","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4755,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/09\/debunking-a-fake-hurricane-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1945,"position":0},"title":"Debunking a Fake Hurricane Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 September 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Also from last week: someone on Facebook circulated a map showing the path of Hurricane Irma hitting Houston, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a warning on Twitter about fake forecasts (real forecasts only go out five days). 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Unlike U.S. presidential elections, it's by popular vote, with the top two vote-getters moving on to a second round in two weeks' time. The major candidates' support was distributed unevenly around the country. Media organizations used several different methods\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics"","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3042,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/trump-clinton-and-the-gender-gap\/","url_meta":{"origin":1945,"position":3},"title":"Trump, Clinton and the Gender Gap","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 October 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"A pronounced gender split is emerging in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Based on national polls in October, Nate Silver writes, \"on average, Clinton leads Trump by 15 percentage points among women while trailing him by 5 points among men. 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