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...
All out for Leni, offline, online
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...
Download the NAMFREL app and help ensure integrity of the 2022 elections
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...
NAMFREL calls on COMELEC not to weaponize power and authority against the people
(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...
How online platforms are preparing us for PH elections
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...
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...
How Google combats disinformation & misinformation
“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...
“Ilaw ng Tahanan” Trends on Twitter during the Second #PiliPinasDebates2022
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...
The fight vs disinformation intensifies
TWO important dates stood out last week. The Philippines connected to the internet for the first time on March 29, 1994. Twenty-eight years later, how...
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,...
Call to Comelec for transparency, integrity, accountability
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...
#FactsFirstPH, VP Leni, supporters fight fake news
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.,...
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...
Twitter’s partnership with COMELEC for PH elections
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...