Solved: file_get_contents is returning back a corrupted characters from facbook feed.

I have the following PHP code which is working fine, but all of the sudden it does not work:

<?php
 header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
$page_id = 'cnninternational';
$access_token = 'xxxxxxx';
//Get the JSON
$json_object = file_get_contents('https://graph.facebook.com/'.$page_id.'/posts?access_token='.$access_token.'&format=json');
//Interpret data
$fbdata = json_decode($json_object);
?>

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I started to trace and I found that when I var_dump($json_object) I am getting something like this:

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However when I access the URL:

https://graph.facebook.com/cnninternational/posts?access_token=xxxxx&format=json

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I get something like this

{
   "data": [
      {
         "id": "18793419640_246085255559206",
         "from": {
            "category": "Tv network",
            "name": "CNN International",
            "id": "18793419640"
         },
         "message": "If you\u2019re afraid of heights, you might want to avoid stepping into this \u201cvoid\u201d at the top of the French Alps: http://cnn.it/1kzMekv",
         "picture": "http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQB_ttzD_Vr9LPOB&w=154&h=154&url=http\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Fi2.cdn.turner.com\u00252Fcnn\u00252Fdam\u00252Fassets\u00252F131225115813-void-tease-story-top.jpg",
         "link": "http://cnn.it/1kzMekv",
         "name": "The eighth wonder of the world? 'Step into The Void'",
         "caption": "edition.cnn.com",
         "description": "If you're scared of heights, then this is not for you.",
         "icon": "http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/yq/r/SC2ZmEkfI-X.png",
         "privacy": {
            "value": ""
         },
         "type": "link",
         "status_type": "shared_story",
         "created_time": "2014-01-14T15:09:29+0000",
         "updated_time": "2014-01-14T15:22:39+0000",
         "shares": {
            "count": 15
         },
         "likes": {
            "data": [
               {
                  "id": "100000320486234",
                  "name": "Cris Pereira"
               },
               {
                  "id": "1133601526",
                  "name": "Diego Hernandez"
               },
               {
                  "id": "100004287573273",
                  "name": "Nawa Nazeer"
               },

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I have no idea what went wrong the code was working perfectly and all of the sudden it started to do so.

<?php $page_id = 'cnninternational'; $access_token = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'; $feed = 'https://graph.facebook.com/'.$page_id.'/posts?access_token='.$access_token.'&format=json'; $headers = array( "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset: UTF-8" ); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $feed); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $putput = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); var_dump($output); ?>