{"id":35762,"date":"2025-08-23T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-has-gavin-newsom-gone-dark-woke-the-bbc-explains\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T04:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T04:10:00","slug":"why-has-gavin-newsom-gone-dark-woke-the-bbc-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-has-gavin-newsom-gone-dark-woke-the-bbc-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has Gavin Newsom gone &#8216;dark woke&#8217;? The BBC explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">California Governor Gavin Newsom has flipped the script, using social media to come after US President Donald Trump and other political opponents. Newsom&#8217;s X feed has in recent weeks featured posts in full capitalisation, with AI-generated memes and trolling critics &#8211; similar to posts from Trump on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">While the posts have won Newsom support from some Democrat voters, Republicans are calling the governor &#8220;desperate&#8221; and &#8220;attention-seeking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The BBC&#8217;s Bernd Debusmann takes a deeper dive at the strategy behind the governor&#8217;s social media posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\"><i id=\"video-produced-by-alex-foster\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 fhKUCU\">Video produced by Alex Foster<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cdd3p23e098o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom has flipped the script, using social media to come after US President Donald Trump and other political opponents. Newsom&#8217;s X feed has in recent weeks featured posts in full capitalisation, with AI-generated memes and trolling critics &#8211; similar to posts from Trump on Truth Social. While the posts have won Newsom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35764,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35762\/revisions\/35764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}