{"id":21026,"date":"2026-05-05T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/21026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:17:39","slug":"underground-underworld-of-pr-firms-weaponise-social-media-to-manipulate-public-expert-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/21026\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Underground underworld&#8217; of PR firms weaponise social media to manipulate public, expert warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"&#039;Underground underworld&#039; of PR firms weaponise social media to manipulate public, expert warns\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7SutzVFFvOA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8216;Underground underworld&#8217; of PR firms weaponise social media to manipulate public, expert warns<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni settlement has exposed the murky world of &#8216;astroturfing&#8217; &#8211; coordinated campaigns using bots and fake accounts to manipulate public opinion about celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>Experts warn that shadowy PR companies now operate like an &#8220;underground underworld&#8221;, using software to weaponise social media and drive fake outrage against stars, including Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>#hollywood #celebrities #entertainment <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews<\/p>\n<p>Sky News Daily podcast is available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/skynewsdaily\/<br \/>\nFor more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Underground underworld&#8217; of PR firms weaponise social media to manipulate public, expert warns The Blake Lively and Justin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24322,24324,20406,6052,24323,22109,24325,31,1520,296,279,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-21026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sky-news","8":"tag-blake","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-gala","11":"tag-hollywood","12":"tag-lively","13":"tag-met","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sky","17":"tag-sky-news","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116522881133909683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}