Bloggers need a collective set of ethical standards
I don’t know with the other bloggers especially those that covered Ferdinand Marcos Jr during the campaign but I set my own journalistic standards and...
TrollExposer.com: Expose these trolls to fight disinformation
Fighting Fake News And Disinformation:Filipino-American Group Races to Unveil Large Army of Trolls Ahead Of The 2022 Philippine Presidential Elections. The group calls on Meta/Facebook...
Non-political spaces can also spread disinformation – study
A NON-POLITICAL Facebook page allows me breathing space from all the online negative vibes. Before I wrote about technology and politics, I shared recipes on...
Diversify sources of news
Where do you get your news? According to the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG) research, 79 percent of Filipinos said “they often get their news...
Sa darating na halalan, ano ang panata mo sa katotohanan? #FactsFirstPH
The International Fact-checking day on April 2 is not a single event but a rallying cry for more facts – and fact-checking – in politics, journalism,...
Twitter reactions of Filipinos in the First #PiliPinasDebates2022
Twitter shared the sentiments of Filipinos on the COMELEC debates as they went to twitter. A month of campaigning culminated in a lively political showdown...
Tackling misinformation in closed social media spaces
As I write this , it would have been a year since the Luzon lockdown. It is time to take stock in looking at Covid-19...
The power of social media during natural calamities
Two calamity-specific hashtags have been adopted after Tropical Storm “Ondoy” (international name: “Ketsana”): #RescuePH, which is used when someone needs rescuing or has knowledge of...
Pause. #TakeCareBeforeYouShare . The fight against #COVID19 is also a fight against misinformation.
On World Social Media Day on June 30, the United Nations expressed its hope to reach billions of social media users with this new message...
I hold the line with Maria Ressa et. al.
I stand with Maria Ressa , Rey Santos & Rappler . The guilty verdict vs. Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr. is an attack against...
The power of the social media community in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
Originally published in Sunday Business & IT on March 22, 2020 How is everybody doing in the time of the Luzon lockdown or community quarantine...
Let’s work on a disaster information management system
How did you learn about the eruption of Taal Volcano on Jan. 12, 2020? Many of us got alerted in our social media feeds. During...
WT.Social, an alternative to Facebook and Twitter?
Frustrated with Facebook and Twitter for their “clickbait nonsense,” Jimmy Wales, a co-founder of Wikipedia, created WT.Social in October 2019. WT.Social is a social networking...
#ThisHappened : one of the top Twitter global news-related hashtags in 2019 is #ClimateStrike
What were the year’s hot issues on Twitter? Every year, Twitter releases #ThisHappened, the most tweeted hashtags. Trending moments in the Philippines were in entertainment,...
How Google fights disinformation on YouTube
First published at the Sunday Times & IT , November 10, 2019 The words “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “fake news” mean different things to different people. Google...