{"id":10887,"date":"2018-08-10T19:48:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T23:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=10887"},"modified":"2018-08-10T19:48:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T23:48:43","slug":"report-college-applicants-rejected-for-following-alex-jones-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/report-college-applicants-rejected-for-following-alex-jones-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: College Applicants Rejected for Following Alex Jones on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/college-admissions255.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/college-admissions255-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/college-admissions255-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/college-admissions255-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/college-admissions255.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/codnewsroom\/37539979370\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flickr, codnewsroom<\/a>.<\/h6>\n<h2 class=\"entry-subtitle\"><strong>\u2018This data collection and usage is an entirely new level of social engineering that is trying to change society\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>INFOWARS<\/strong><br \/>\nby Adan Salazar<br \/>\n8\/9\/2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>College applicants are being rejected for merely following the Alex Jones account on Twitter, a digital privacy expert has warned.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bradley Shear, who runs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shearsocialmedia.com\/2018\/08\/top-college-tried-to-reject-applicant-who-followed-alex-jones-on-twitter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shear on Social Media Law blog<\/a>, claims one of his clients was rejected from a prestigious college after an admissions interviewer scoured the student\u2019s social media account and found he followed <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realalexjones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Jones<\/a> on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While one of my legal clients (a 17 year old teen) was being interviewed by one of the most competitive colleges in the country he was asked why he was following Alex Jones on Twitter. My client, a teenager expected to talk about his stellar grades, top test scores, amazing extracurricular activities and volunteer work, but the interviewer focused on who he was connecting with online. My client had never \u201cliked\u201d or re-tweeted any of Mr. Jones\u2019 content. His alleged \u201ctransgression\u201d was that he followed Mr. Jones on Twitter. That was it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Shear researched the student\u2019s social media account and found he was a supporter of Democrat socialist Bernie Sanders, whom Alex Jones certainly does not support.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/report-college-applicants-rejected-for-following-alex-jones-on-twitter\/\">https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/report-college-applicants-rejected-for-following-alex-jones-on-twitter\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credits: flickr, codnewsroom. \u2018This data collection and usage is an entirely new level of social engineering that is trying to change society\u2019 INFOWARS by Adan Salazar 8\/9\/2018 Excerpt: College applicants are being rejected for merely following the Alex Jones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/report-college-applicants-rejected-for-following-alex-jones-on-twitter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10889,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions\/10889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}