I dare say that anyone who has the privilege and awesome responsibility to serve in this chamber knows that these reflexive slurs of "fake news" are dubious, at best. Those of us who travel overseas, especially to war zones and other troubled areas around the globe, encounter members of U....
I am going to talk about my advocacy for the Proliferation of Fake News. Before we begin with the talk proper, I am from a country in Asia which is the Philippines, wherein according to research conducted by Universal McCann, it stated that Filipinos are the most frequent users of... Sh...
But under populism, they are a proclaimed nemesis of political leaders who claim to represent the common people. This article argues that the discourses of strongman, patronage and fake news constitute three prominent right-wing populist ploys that erode human rights in Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines...
Drawing attention to the country's highly skilled, highly organised online freelance labour force – described as "a stockpile of digital weapons" – the research challenges global actors to look beyond the West and consider how fake news production in countries such as the Philippines, currently t...
said reports of a new wave of drug-related killings in thePhilippineswere "alternative facts" spread by opposition groups and "repeated by the Western media,"CNN reportedin May. Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase "alternative facts" – a cousin of "fake news"–to defend ...
In CNN’s own story about this online phenomenon today, they admit that a vast number of the posts on Twitter amounted to unsubstantiated rumors and wild inaccuracies. As blogger Tim Mallon put it, “far from being a crowd-sourced version of the news it (Twitter) was actually an incoherent...
COVID-19 and Mental Health Issues in the Philippines Added to the fear of the virus are the negative effects of lockdown and quarantine mea-sures, unemployment, recession, populism, fake news, nat-ural calamities, unemployment, work-from-home setting, home schooling of children, lack ... JC...
Last year, Germany introduced a plan that fined social media platforms if they didn’t remove posts that included hate speech. Regulators from the Philippines had been debating how to deal with fake news in their own country but said in February that banning fake news outright would be unconsti...
Shortly afterwards, the US entered the Spanish-American War in order to capture Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. The practice of over-reporting and embellishing a story to stir public outrage became known as yellow journalism –a badge proudly worn by Hearst at the time. Hearst ...
It’s just more common in the news that sellers are the scammers. But I wouldn’t be surprised of our country being such as you described, just because we are mostly Catholics. Catholicism and Christianity in general here in the Philippines are not really focused on educating the public...