{"id":136830,"date":"2021-01-31T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T21:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=136830"},"modified":"2021-01-31T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T21:46:40","slug":"explaining-conspiracy-theories-about-bullied-9-year-old-quaden-bayles-1-31-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=136830","title":{"rendered":"Explaining Conspiracy Theories About Bullied 9-Year-Old Quaden Bayles (1-31-21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_vau5dp\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"vau5dp\",\"div\":\"rumble_vau5dp\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/cameronwilson\/quaden-bayles-conspiracy-viral-bullying-dwarfism-age<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-53673934<br \/>\nNot Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=130046<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/thelogicalindian.com\/fact-check\/australia-quaden-bayles-bullying-go-fund-me-19903<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qsEoJHAJli\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/536617-marjorie-taylor-greene-touts-trump-call-amid-growing-backlash\/\">Marjorie Taylor Greene touts Trump call amid growing backlash<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Marjorie Taylor Greene touts Trump call amid growing backlash&#8221; &#8212; The Hill\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/536617-marjorie-taylor-greene-touts-trump-call-amid-growing-backlash\/embed\/#?secret=6gbsmHyyYZ#?secret=qsEoJHAJli\" data-secret=\"qsEoJHAJli\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/austory\/about-a-boy\/12803110: Quaden Bayles is a nine-year-old boy with dwarfism who just wants to fit in.<\/p>\n<p>But he unwittingly found himself the target of a vicious social media pile-on when his mum Yarraka posted a video of him distraught after being bullied at school.<\/p>\n<p>The video went viral and there was a huge outpouring of support.<\/p>\n<p>But the haters also came out in force, accusing Quaden of being an adult who was scamming the public for financial gain.<\/p>\n<p>This is how Quaden triumphed over the trolls.<\/p>\n<p>Quaden Bayles and his mum Yarraka were barraged by vile and nasty messages after a Facebook video went viral. But behind the headlines was a nine-year-old boy, caught at the centre of a vicious social media storm. This is what life is like for the family now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/cameronwilson\/quaden-bayles-conspiracy-viral-bullying-dwarfism-age https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-53673934 Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=130046 https:\/\/thelogicalindian.com\/fact-check\/australia-quaden-bayles-bullying-go-fund-me-19903 Marjorie Taylor Greene touts Trump call amid growing backlash https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/austory\/about-a-boy\/12803110: Quaden Bayles is a nine-year-old boy with dwarfism who just wants to fit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=136830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,9619,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-conspiracy","category-internet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136831,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136830\/revisions\/136831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}