FA K E

N E W S
The Rise Of FAKE
BY MIKOKIT
NEWSF IN
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IS FAKE NEWS A
Social Problem?
Fake news is
crucial at this point
of time
Fake news is also a
political problem

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“Fake news is amplified,

and sometimes created, by
publications with
inadequate editorial
processes, so it’s useful to
be looking at the reach of
those publications.”
(Varghese, 2019)

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 • Fake news is different from
before and in our society now
PHILIPPINE • Fake news offers an alternative

S: reality
• In 19th century Fake news
WORLD’S arise in the form of

SOCIAL •
newspapers, and tabloids
Fake news Discredit news
MEDIA stories

CAPITAL IN • In 2017, President Donald

Trump again started the "Fake
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FACT CHECKING

47% 98% 88%

of Filipinos use to check their aware of fake
the internet social media news on social
accounts media
majority of whom access it through
their mobile phones, and majority
of whom use it to check their
social media accounts

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FACT CHECKING

79% 74% 59%

it's widespread they heard, or thought that it
on those watched at was widespread
platforms least one piece on these
of fake news platforms
in June 2017, out of the 37% of
total respondents who use the
internet for social media

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CAUSES & EFFCTS

OF FAKE NEWS Setting agenda

The way media Bullying and

platforms operate violence

Racist Ideas Democratic

impacts

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 FAKE NEWS IS
CRUCIAL AT
THIS POINT OF
TIME!
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 https://medium.com/@tobiasrose/empathy-to-democracy-b7f04ab57eee#.100kciuhj

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 “Contrary to conventional
wisdom, robots accelerated the
spread of true and false news at
the same rate, implying that
false news spreads more than
the truth because humans, not
robots, are more likely to spread
it”

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UNDERLYING Theories
1. Structural-Functionalism Theory (Emile Durkheim)
Despite their negative effects, social problem often also serve important
function for society.

2. Social-Conflict Theory (Karl Marx)

Occurs when two or more actors oppose each other in social interaction,
reciprocally exerting social power in an effort to attain scarce or incompatibly
goal and prevent the opponent from attaining them.

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UNDERLYING Theories
3. Symbolic Interactionist Theory (George Herbert Mead)
Individual acts on the premise of a shared understanding of meaning within
their shared context. Thus, interaction and behavior is framed through the
shared meaning that objects and concepts have attached to them.

4. Conspiracy Theory
Conspiracy theorist see themselves as having privileged access to special
knowledge or a special mode of thought that separates them from the
masses who believe the official account.

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WHAT WE CAN DO
• public should be responsible in sharing information
on social networking sites such as Facebook and
Twitter
• double-checking the Uniform Resource Locator
(URL) or web address of an article, the date of
publication, the author or writer, and also the content
of the story
• correct spelling of a person's name or the
company/organization's name, profile picture, number
of friends, followers, and even the group members

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FOUR
Cs:
• CONTENT
• COMMUNICATOR’S
IDENTITY
• CREATOR’S INTENT
• CONSEQUENCE

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establishment of the
Strategies OF Provincial
Communication
THE Officers Network
(PCONet)
GOVERNMENT Senate Bill No. 1492 or
An Act Penalizing the
“In the age of information, Malicious Distribution of
False News and Other
ignorance is a choice.” Related Violations

Dismiss Disinformation
(Dismiss Dis) as a
nationwide movement

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Media and Information

Strategies OF Literacy (MIL) for a in

partnership with the
THE Department of Education
that focuses on cyber
GOVERNMENT
“We have to deal with fakery and wellness for the youth

falsity on many fronts. We have to stay workshops on fact-

the course, stand our ground. We have checking, fighting fake
news and media literacy
to report and make sense of the
continuing narrative for others. We
have to tell the story” association of government
information officers

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Strategies OF Youth For Truth

(Iloilo)
THE Utilizes Radyo
GOVERNMENT
“developing young minds
Pilipinas

ingrained with the values of PCOO- debunk

the story
truth, responsibility and
Government Information
integrity” Centers (GIC) as hubs of
essential government news

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MECHANISMS

Strategies OF “machine
learning”
THE third party fact
checkers such as
GOVERNMENT
“Blaming Facebook and Twitter for Poynter Institute and
fake news is like blaming roads for Rappler
people who report
bad drivers. It distracts from the fact false news are also
that the public took its own fact checkers
discernment and intelligence for
“Fact or Fake” -
granted.” GMA

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 WEBSITES
PEDDLING
FAKE NEWS

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Websites Peddling
Fake News
Classified Trends - http://www.classifiedtrends.net/
Definitely Filipino - http://definitelyfilipino.com/
Duterte News Info - http://www.du30newsinfo.com/
Extreme Readers - http://www.extremereaders.com/
FilipiNews PH - http://www.filipinewsph.com/
Get Real Philippines -
http://www.getrealphilippines.com/
Guard1an - https://theguard1an.com/
Kalye Pinoy - http://www.kalyepinoy.com/
Leak News PH - http://www.leaknewsph.com/
Media ni Duterte - http://www.dutertedefender.com/

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Websites Peddling
Fake News
Public Trending - http://www.publictrending.net/
SocialNewsPH - http://www.socialnewsph.com/
TahoNews - http://www.tahonews.com/
TheVolatilian - http://www.thevolatilian.com/
Thinking Pinoy - http://www.thinkingpinoy.net/
TrendingBalita - http://www.trendingbalita.info/
Trending News Portal -
http://www.trendingnewsportal.net.ph/
TrendTitan - http://trendtitan.com/
News Media PH - http://www.newsmediaph.com/

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Websites Peddling
Fake News
News Titans - http://www.newstitans.com/
OKD2 - http://okd2.com/
Pinoy Freedom Wall -
http://www.pinoyfreedomwall.com/
Pinoy Trending - http://pinoytrending.altervista.org/
Pinoy Trending News - http://pinoytrendingnews.net/
Pinoy Viral Issues - http://www.pinoyviralissues.net/
Pinoy Viral News - http://pinoyviralnews.com/
PinoyWorld - http://www.pinoyworld.net/
Minda Nation - http://mindanation.com/
Netizens PH - http://www.netizensph.com/

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 FAKE NEWS:
MORAL PANIC
OR THREAT TO
DEMOCRACY?

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WHAT ARE THE REAL

Consequences OF FAKE
NEWS?
1. Separating fact from fiction
people, and especially young people, have a hard
time separating good sources of information from
Donald Trump’s son, Eric, retweeted a
fake news report about paid protesters
questionable ones or determining whether a
at rallies held by his father
photograph is authentic or fabricated.

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WHAT ARE THE REAL

Consequences OF FAKE
NEWS?
2. they can polarize society,
particularly during political events
3. affect international relations
4. ‘celebrity’ concept: most readers are unable to
distinguish these from real stories
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WHAT ARE THE REAL

Consequences OF FAKE
NEWS?
5. have led to racism, harassment,
intimidation and damage to
reputation

6. Can influence people’s perception as well as their

political and social views
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WHAT ARE THE REAL

Consequences OF FAKE
NEWS?
7. Have led to threats and have
created fear among people

6. Have created confusion to people and have led to

the loss of trust in social media as an effective tool
for information dissemination
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