{"id":187945,"date":"2026-01-29T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/fact-check-is-the-eu-launching-a-social-media-platform-called-w\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:49:00","slug":"fact-check-is-the-eu-launching-a-social-media-platform-called-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/fact-check-is-the-eu-launching-a-social-media-platform-called-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact check: Is the EU launching a social media platform called &#8216;W&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Viral posts claiming the EU is launching its own social media platform to counter X, in the wake of various scandals, are misleading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/01\/29\/fact-check-is-the-eu-launching-a-social-media-platform-called-w\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viral posts claiming the EU is launching its own social media platform to counter X, in the wake of various scandals, are misleading. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":187946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}