CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault reports on the Philippines
‘Democracy as we know it is dead’: Filipino journalists fight fake news Filipinos spend more time on social media than anyone else in the world By Adrienne Arsenault, CBC Posted: Apr 27, 2017 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 27, 2017 7:36 AM ET About The Author Adrienne Arsenault Senior Correspondent Based in Toronto, Adrienne Arsenault was previously CBC-TV’s London correspondent, a position she took up in the fall of 2006 after having spent three and a half years in Jerusalem. More by Adrienne Arsenault Follow Adrienne Arsenault on Twitter Related Stories ‘I won’t be quiet,’ says jailed Philippine senator, vocal critic of President Duterte Rodrigo Duterte’s harsh critic Leila de Lima arrested in Philippines Human Rights Watch says it has documented crimes against humanity in Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs How one woman’s death illustrates the brutality of Philippines drug war Like much of our connected world, the Philippines has a problem with fake news. But it faces some unique challenges in trying to fight it. The bogus stories that pollute the internet in the Philippines are startling in their venom, frequency and sometimes clumsy attempts to look like the real thing. For example, a number of the stories say Senator Antonio Trillanes, a critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, was arrested for drugs and accepted massive bribes. Trillanes’s team maintains they are all made up. Some of the...
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