{"id":135,"date":"2021-08-04T18:13:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/?p=135"},"modified":"2021-08-04T18:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T18:13:22","slug":"how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-trolling-gesture-anti-defamation-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-trolling-gesture-anti-defamation-league\/","title":{"rendered":"How the \u201cOK\u201d Symbol Became a Popular Trolling Gesture | Anti-Defamation League"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The \u201cOK\u201d hand gesture originated as one of these hoaxes in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced \u201cOperation O-KKK,\u201d telling other members that \u201cwe must flood Twitter and other social media websites\u2026claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/blog\/how-the-ok-symbol-became-a-popular-trolling-gesture\">How the \u201cOK\u201d Symbol Became a Popular Trolling Gesture | Anti-Defamation League<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cOK\u201d hand gesture originated as one of these hoaxes in February 2017 when an anonymous 4channer announced \u201cOperation O-KKK,\u201d telling other members that \u201cwe must flood Twitter and other social media websites\u2026claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy.\u201d Source: How the \u201cOK\u201d Symbol Became a Popular Trolling Gesture | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disinfo-ex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}