On Vico Sotto: From #ibaNaman to #ibaNa
Several pleasant surprises and upsets happened a few hours after voting ended on May 13, 2019. While awaiting in frustration for the media report from the transparency server of the Commission on [read more]
social media
Social media and its impact on Philippine elections
Now that the Philippine election day is next week, would social media have an impact in informing, and mobilizing voters? Or convince them to vote for a certain candidate? Social media was a [read more]
Aside from fact-checking, we need more truth-tellers
Adolf Hitler pointed out the principle of the Big Lie: People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough people take it as gospel truth. Educating voters [read more]
Social media’s influence on political participation depends on level of interest
The first thing I do when I wake up is to go through my Twitter feed for current events or engage with my followers. Not everyone is on twitter though. Facebook is still the number one social media [read more]
PH takes the global lead in time spent online, and on social media but is it used for good ?
First published on February 10, 2019 at Sunday Business and IT Filipinos are using the internet 10 hours a day. The global average is at two hours and 16 minutes. Brazil comes in second with nine [read more]
Possible security issues faced by the consumer in 2019
This was first published on Sunday Business & IT on January 6, 2019. Living Life well online 2018 was the year for data breaches which compromised the personal information of millions of [read more]
A social media wish list for 2019
First published at Sunday Times & IT on December 30, 2018 I like looking back at the past, on my work as a columnist, blogger and advocate. The challenge is going through what needs improvement [read more]
Emergency Preparedness: The Go bag, Tropical Cyclone, Storm surge and Floods
I mentioned in my previous post that aside from being alert to weather bulletins, a family needs to have a preparedness plan during emergencies and a survival kit, which can just be a huge backpack [read more]
Five ways to use social media and technology for disaster preparedness
I am republishing my article that was published at the Manila Times on July 22, 2018 because of anonymous weather alerts getting the rounds of private messages. As Inday Varona said in her Facebook [read more]
So why was Babae Ako influential in driving news?
Time identified “The Women of #BabaeAko” as the 25 most influential people on the internet. The contenders were evaluated by looking at their global impact on social media and their [read more]
Blogging for social good: 8 tips to responsible blogging and engagement
To curb the spread of disinformation or fake news, I do my share as a blogger by writing articles of national interest and those that educate the users of social media platforms on its judicious [read more]
Quotable quotes from the Democracy & Disinformation Conference #FightDisinfo
The “Democracy and Disinformation,” Conference with 42 resource persons discussed ways to tackle fake news, other forms of disinformation, and how to fight back .For the first time. [read more]
How to stop the spread of fake news. is legislation the proper remedy?
This is my position paper as one of the resource speakers for the second public hearing held by the Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media on January 30, 2018. The hearing will [read more]
Moves to fight “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders in 2018 (updated)
Fake news. It’s complicated. I prefer not to call it “fake news” but it has already become an umbrella term that talks about a specific kind of propaganda/misinformation/disinformation, [read more]
Bloggers for Freedom
Photo via Beth Angsioco I am grateful to all the bloggers for agreeing or planning to sign the Bloggers for Freedom statement. …. We are happy and proud of this great community of freedom [read more]
I stand with Rappler. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.
“An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. It is an attack on the freedoms over which we stand guard. Understand that we will see things this way. No, you will not be granted the [read more]
Counter speech is hard for a lot of us
How should one react to Facebook posts these days? When I talked to a Facebook representative for Public Policy Southeast Asia in October 2016, I was told to use “counter speech”. [read more]
What is all this ado about bloggers at #ASEAN2017?
(first published at What is all this ado about bloggers at #ASEAN2017? ) I am compelled to write this piece, if only to document our ongoing struggle to make citizen engagement in the Philippines a [read more]
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