Philippines Disinformation -- USAGM
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- Philippines Disinformation -- USAGM
- May 7, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English Philippines Disinformation HEADLINE: Fact Finders Try To Combat Disinformation Campaigns Ahead Of Election TEASER: Fact Finders Try To Combat Disinformation Campaigns Ahead Of Election PUBLISHED AT: BYLINE: Dave Grunebaum DATELINE: Quezon City, Philippines VIDEOGRAPHER: Dave Grunebaum PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA Original, —— PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X TRT: VID APPROVED BY: TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There is an accompanying radio story)) ((Intro)) [[On Monday the Philippines will elect a new president. But on top of all the campaigning, voters have faced a barrage of disinformation particularly on social media. Dave Grunebaum looks at the issue and the people trying to combat it.]] ((PKG)) ((video of Mary Grace Glorioso looking at social media on her phone follwed by agency video of Robredo and Marcos Jr.)) ((Narration)) Looking at Facebook and Youtube is where 35-year-old Mary Grace Glorioso gets stories about the Philippines presidential race. She has narrowed down her choice to two candidates, one is Leni Robredo who’s the current Vice President but Glorioso is leaning towards the heavy frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Junior because of what she hears about him on social media. ((Mary Grace Glorioso, Quezon City)) “The Philippines will prosper if he wins and bring back the golden days.” ((video of Facebook screen shots showing Golden Days, Agency File video of Marcos Senior, followed by more Facebook screen shots of disinformation) ((Narration)) The Golden Days is a common theme on social media that often whitewashes history when Marcos’ father the late-dictator was president from the mid-1960s to the mid-80s. The reality is thousands of people including political opponents and activists were tortured, killed or disappeared. The family is accused of stealing five billion to ten billion dollars when Marcos Sr. was in power. Observers say revisionist history is part of a trend on social media to go with a lot positive posts about Marcos Jr. and negative ones for Robredo. ((Che de los Reyes, ABS-CBN Fact Check Team)) “There’s a machinery behind it that powers these networks of purveyors of these claims.” ((Video of ABS-CBN Fact Check Team at work)) ((Narration)) Che de los Reyes leads the fact check team at ABS-CBN News one of dozens of media outlets, universities and civil society groups that are combatting disinformation. They research suspicious statements and images to determine what’s fact, what’s fiction and publish the results. But de los Reyes acknowledges the fact checkers face an uphill battle. ((Che de los Reyes, ABS-CBN Fact Check Team)) “It’s so easy to manufacture a false claim right you don’t need to do anything much. You can just keep on churning and churching falsehoods, false claims but fact checking takes a lot of time.” ((video of Arguelles working at his desk)) ((Narration)) Cleve Arguelles, a political science lecturer at De La Salle University says young voters in the Philippines are prime targets for disinformation especially since Filipinos on average are among the world's biggest users of social media. ((Cleve Arguelles, De La Salle University)) “They weren’t alive during the time of the Marcos dictatorship so they’re also quite easy and vulnerable to pro-Marcos disinformation campaigns. So they form a very large part of the voting constituency for the 2022 elections.” ((agency video of Marcos Jr.)) ((Narration)) Marcos has told local reporters his campaign is not behind any disinformation but Arguelles noticed some trends. ((Cleve Arguelles, De La Salle University)) “You can really see the intimate connection between the official campaign and what trolls for example, what troll accounts for example would try to popularize and would try to trend on social media.” ((video of Filipinos using social media)) ((Narration)) So the question remains will voters base their decisions on information or disinformation. ((Dave Grunebaum for VOA News Quezon City, Philippines)
- Transcript/Script Philippines Disinformation HEADLINE: Fact Finders Try To Combat Disinformation Campaigns Ahead Of Election TEASER: Fact Finders Try To Combat Disinformation Campaigns Ahead Of Election PUBLISHED AT: BYLINE: Dave Grunebaum DATELINE: Quezon City, Philippines VIDEOGRAPHER: Dave Grunebaum PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA Original, —— PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X TRT: VID APPROVED BY: TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There is an accompanying radio story)) ((Intro)) [[On Monday the Philippines will elect a new president. But on top of all the campaigning, voters have faced a barrage of disinformation particularly on social media. Dave Grunebaum looks at the issue and the people trying to combat it.]] ((PKG)) ((video of Mary Grace Glorioso looking at social media on her phone follwed by agency video of Robredo and Marcos Jr.)) ((Narration)) Looking at Facebook and Youtube is where 35-year-old Mary Grace Glorioso gets stories about the Philippines presidential race. She has narrowed down her choice to two candidates, one is Leni Robredo who’s the current Vice President but Glorioso is leaning towards the heavy frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Junior because of what she hears about him on social media. ((Mary Grace Glorioso, Quezon City)) “The Philippines will prosper if he wins and bring back the golden days.” ((video of Facebook screen shots showing Golden Days, Agency File video of Marcos Senior, followed by more Facebook screen shots of disinformation) ((Narration)) The Golden Days is a common theme on social media that often whitewashes history when Marcos’ father the late-dictator was president from the mid-1960s to the mid-80s. The reality is thousands of people including political opponents and activists were tortured, killed or disappeared. The family is accused of stealing five billion to ten billion dollars when Marcos Sr. was in power. Observers say revisionist history is part of a trend on social media to go with a lot positive posts about Marcos Jr. and negative ones for Robredo. ((Che de los Reyes, ABS-CBN Fact Check Team)) “There’s a machinery behind it that powers these networks of purveyors of these claims.” ((Video of ABS-CBN Fact Check Team at work)) ((Narration)) Che de los Reyes leads the fact check team at ABS-CBN News one of dozens of media outlets, universities and civil society groups that are combatting disinformation. They research suspicious statements and images to determine what’s fact, what’s fiction and publish the results. But de los Reyes acknowledges the fact checkers face an uphill battle. ((Che de los Reyes, ABS-CBN Fact Check Team)) “It’s so easy to manufacture a false claim right you don’t need to do anything much. You can just keep on churning and churching falsehoods, false claims but fact checking takes a lot of time.” ((video of Arguelles working at his desk)) ((Narration)) Cleve Arguelles, a political science lecturer at De La Salle University says young voters in the Philippines are prime targets for disinformation especially since Filipinos on average are among the world's biggest users of social media. ((Cleve Arguelles, De La Salle University)) “They weren’t alive during the time of the Marcos dictatorship so they’re also quite easy and vulnerable to pro-Marcos disinformation campaigns. So they form a very large part of the voting constituency for the 2022 elections.” ((agency video of Marcos Jr.)) ((Narration)) Marcos has told local reporters his campaign is not behind any disinformation but Arguelles noticed some trends. ((Cleve Arguelles, De La Salle University)) “You can really see the intimate connection between the official campaign and what trolls for example, what troll accounts for example would try to popularize and would try to trend on social media.” ((video of Filipinos using social media)) ((Narration)) So the question remains will voters base their decisions on information or disinformation. ((Dave Grunebaum for VOA News Quezon City, Philippines)
- NewsML Media Topics Politics
- Topic Tags Phillippines Desinformation
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date May 6, 2022 23:31 EDT
- Description English On Monday the Philippines will elect a new president. But on top of all the campaigning, voters have faced a barrage of disinformation particularly on social media. Dave Grunebaum looks at the issue and the people trying to combat it.
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English