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Pinoys urged to fight fake news, populism in 2022 polls

Filipinos need to actively fight disinformation and populism so they could make enlightened choices in next year’s high-stakes elections, international research firm Stratbase ADR...

The young are in peril

Thirty-one percent of Filipino girls and young women are not sure how to spot disinformation online, and 6 percent cannot tell whether the information...

Facebook shuts down anti-vaccine influencer campaign

Facebook on Tuesday said it shut down a disinformation operation which sought to spread Covid-19 vaccine hoaxes by duping social media influencers into backing...

Caught by the mouth

The Philippines has just been put through another two-week cycle of disinformation and agitation-propaganda (agit-prop) by the US-Amboy network of intelligence, media, and politico-military...

Fake news makes Czechs vaccine-wary despite COVID crisis

As the Czech Republic struggles to cope with the world's highest coronavirus infection rate, a tidal wave of disinformation and a bungled government response...

Friendships and prerogatives

In a Netflix documentary, political consultant and lobbyist Roger Stone extolled the value of disinformation. He described an experiment he did at elementary school,...

Nigeria’s media code fuels worries over freedom of expression

By Sophie Bouillon  Nigeria has announced it will tighten regulations on social media in a bid to fight the “cancer” of fake news and disinformation,...

Carpio slams China claims ‘gigantic fraud’

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Champions of fakery

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How healthy is your world?

Social media site Twitter this week sought to assess its own health amid the alarming use of its platform to spread disinformation, propaganda and...

Disinformation

It was bad enough that the world saw that the Philippines had elected a senator who appeared incapable of responding directly to fairly simple...

An imminent disinformation nightmare

A free press is an important cornerstone in a constitutional democracy that recognizes fundamental rights.  Through a free press, the government and its officials...
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