{"id":236569,"date":"2022-11-21T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=236569"},"modified":"2022-11-21T13:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:04:56","slug":"qatar-buying-prestige-with-your-gas-bill","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/qatar-buying-prestige-with-your-gas-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar: buying prestige with your gas bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Qatar has spent \u20ac220bn on the World Cup (that’s around 110 times the cost to NASA of sending the Artemis rocket to the moon).<\/p>\n

Qatar has provided all-expenses trips for 1,600 social media influencers, and is paying football fans<\/a> to attend the tournament. In return these fans must gush about the event and the host country, ‘like’ and re-share third-party posts about the World Cup and use the hashtags #IAMAFAN and #Roadto2022. Meanwhile Qatar\u2019s Supreme Committee will monitor their posts and can demand that they delete content unsympathetic to Qatar.<\/p>\n

Not just footballers, now even football fans can be bought. For the rich in capitalism, everything and everybody is for sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-236569","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/236569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}