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Rappler documentary reveals YouTube role in pro-Marcos vloggers’ disinformation drive

CHEERS TO a Rappler documentary that revealed how the disinformation spread by pro-Marcos Jr. vloggers helped make him president. Read more

Commentary warns: journalists face an uncertain future

CHEERS TO Philstar.com for its commentary on the state of mind of many journalists as another Marcos prepares to preside over the nation. But the piece did more than... Read more

NET25 and SMNI propaganda provokes questions on their role in spreading disinformation

ALREADY INFLUENTIAL in the Filipino community, the reach of some religious groups is amplified by the media organizations they own or operate. The bloc-voting of some religious groups has... Read more

Election Day 2022: Media focus on machine malfunctions; Analysts revisit campaign conduct in commentaries

FILIPINOS VOTED May 9 in the most consequential election since 1986 when “people power” overthrew the Marcos dictatorship. COVID-19 cast a shadow on the prospects of the event being... Read more

This Week in Media (January 17 to 21, 2022)

MORE AND more bad news top the end of the first month of 2022 – the continuing increase of COVID cases across all island groups, the death of two... Read more

“Fake news” provision threatens freedom of the press, expression

JOINT STATEMENT We, media organizations, advocates of freedom of the press and of expression, journalists and academics, raise the alarm over the insertion of measures to control free expression... Read more

Image-making or information?

AMONG PUBLIC officials as well as those other individuals whose jobs and functions in society put them in the public eye, how they are perceived by others, as dictated... Read more

Mixed blessing

THE PHILIPPINE blogging community is divided over whether to draft and/or adopt a code of ethical conduct that would govern online expression. As early as the onset of this... Read more