The Inside Spectrum: The Philippine's "Fake News" Problem
Caleb Pangan October 5, 2022 Fake news has been filed as an offence in Philippine law, even though this has been in action for about a decade already, the spread of fake news seems to be at its prime now in the present. The term “fake news” in and of itself is a contradiction, as news must be accurate–if it weren’t so, it would not be labelled as news. In its seriousness, “fake news” literally goes against accuracy and reliability; fake news and false information are literally lies. The spread of false and distorted information has been made easier in this modern age through social media. We no longer have to only rely on messengers and radios to pass along information, now, a connection is all that will do for us to send a message. And even scarier, with things such as “follower counts”, “subscribers”, and such, someone who is relatively popular within a social media platform has the ability to post and spread a false agenda ...