Abstract
Disinformation was the major campaign driver of the recently elected president of the Philippines, son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. This study looks at how media stakeholders in the Philippines are resisting the tsunami of disinformation that continue to attack the credibility of journalism, history, and other fact-based fields of specialization. Amid threats of red-tagging, closure of operations, law suits, and other forms of state-backed intimidation, media and academic institutions in the Philippines push back using the very platforms that were weaponized to spread infodemic: Youtube and TikTok. There is no silver bullet for this crisis of disinformation. However, the study enriches academic discourse on how media institutions might set to protect Philippine society from historical revisionism and other setbacks to democracy.
Presenters
Aileen MacalintalAssistant Professor, Department of Development Journalism, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2022 Special Focus—Democratic Disorder: Disinformation, the Media and Crisis in a Time of Change
KEYWORDS
Disinformation, Philippines, Rappler, Youtube, Tiktok
