Category: Elections

With the 2025 national elections just around the corner, journalists, civic advocates, and data professionals came together for a timely training on how artificial intelligence...

The 2025 senatorial race shows us something that’s been true for a long time: being a celebrity still gives candidates a strong advantage. Many of...

As the Philippines heads towards the 2025 midterm elections, the prevailing presence of political dynasties continues to be a defining characteristic of the country’s political...

A groundbreaking study, ‘Pinasurvey’, conducted by research powerhouse Insightspedia, has shattered the notion that Filipinos are indifferent when it comes to their elected officials. The...

These are the two campaign rallies I covered for presidential candidate Leni Robredo as accredited media. As early as October 7, 2021, I disclosed that...

The spirit of volunteerism is everywhere and it is unlike anything seen before in an election. People are contributing, donating, volunteering time and effort for...

(Note: This statement was released April 25, 2022 by the National Movement for Free Elections or NAMFREL. The statement came in the wake of a...

MOST voters are active in at least one of the four major social media networks. Removing accounts with coordinated inauthentic behavior or putting reporting mechanisms...

“Fighting misinformation is important to Google and it takes the whole of society working together to address it. We will continue to forge meaningful partnerships...

Twitter launched two new emojis activated by hashtags #NLE2022, #Halalan2022, and #VoteSAFEPilipinas  Filipinos showed their support for their preferred presidential candidates by participating in the...

EVERYBODY plays a role in the integrity of the National and Local Elections (NLE) on May 9, 2022. “Vote S.A.F.E (Secure, Accurate, Free and Fair...

Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Gerona Robredo is the “biggest victim” of disinformation according to preliminary data of fact-checking initiative, Tsek.ph. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.,...

The public conversation on Twitter is never more important than during elections. It’s when people come to Twitter for credible information about the elections, to...

Below is an open letter sent by Facts First PH  to all the presidential candidates this afternoon. The #FactsFirstPH initiative is a multi-layer, multi-sectoral effort,...

Emily Moxley, Vice President for Product Management at YouTube and Irene Jay Liu, APAC News Lab Lead at Google shared to the Philippine media more about YouTube’s...