💡 Trivia Cybercrime Law needs to be amended.

Isinulong ni Sta. Rosa City (Laguna) Rep. Dan Fernandez, chairman ng House joint panel, na nagsasagawa ng pagdinig sa diumano’y pasaway ng mga vloggers na nasa likod ng fake news at disinformation laban sa mga opisyal at ahensiya ng pamahalaan.Sa joint hearing ng Committee on Public Order and Safety, Information and Communications Technology, at Public Information ngayong Martes, Pebrero 4, sinabi ni Fernandez na dapat nang baguhin ang Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 upang maproteksiyunan ang mga mamamayan laban sa pagpapakalat ng mali at mapanlinlang na impormasyon mula sa mga pasaway na vlogger.Mahigit 40 vlogger at social media personalities ang Ipinatawag ng Kamara upang magbigay linaw hinggil sa naglipanang fake news at disinformation sa digital platform.“Kinakailangan natin ang mga makabago at naaangkop na mga polisiya at patakaran laban sa disimpormasyon. Kailangan nating suriin mabuti kung paano maitatag ang fact-checking at content moderation sa ating social media platforms,” giit ng kongresista.

 

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House leader bats for social media regulation to curb fake news, By Filane Mikee Cervantes, February 4, 2025, 3:57 pm
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"MANILA – A House leader on Tuesday called for legislation to regulate social media in a bid to curb the spread of fake news and harmful content while ensuring free speech remains protected.​

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During a hearing led by the House Committees on Public Order and Safety, Information and Communications Technology, and Public Information, Senior Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzales Jr. said improved transparency and accountability mechanisms must be put in place for social media platforms."​

Absent vloggers, social media users ordered to explain no-show at House disinformation hearing, Dominique Nicole Flores - Philstar.com, February 4, 2025 | 1:27pm
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"MANILA, Philippines — The House Tri-Committee investigating the lack of regulations for social media platforms amid the spread of disinformation has issued a show cause order to multiple online content creators and vloggers.​

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During its first hearing on Tuesday, February 4, the committee invited around 40 vloggers and content creators to discuss the establishment of regulations and a code of ethics for posting content on social media. ​

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However, only three attended, including political strategist Malou Tiquia. She was fact-checked for falsely claiming that the P51 billion requested by Rep. Paolo Duterte from 2020 to 2022 was not included in the General Appropriations Acts (GAA).​

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The joint panel reviewed excuse letters from absent invitees and moved to issue show cause orders to those who declined and argued that the hearing violated their freedom of speech. The lawmakers deemed their excuses as invalid. ​

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A show cause order compels an individual to appear and justify why they should not face penalties."​

USC study reveals the key reason why fake news spreads on social media, By Pamela Madrid, January 17, 2023
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“The habits of social media users are a bigger driver of misinformation spread than individual attributes. We know from prior research that some people don’t process information critically, and others form opinions based on political biases, which also affects their ability to recognize false stories online,” said Gizem Ceylan, who led the study during her doctorate at USC Marshall and is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Yale School of Management. “However, we show that the reward structure of social media platforms plays a bigger role when it comes to misinformation spread.”​

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"Lastly, the team tested whether social media reward structures could be devised to promote sharing of true over false information. They showed that incentives for accuracy rather than popularity (as is currently the case on social media sites) doubled the amount of accurate news that users share on social platforms.​

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The study’s conclusions:​

• Habitual sharing of misinformation is not inevitable.
• Users could be incentivized to build sharing habits that make them more sensitive to sharing truthful content.
• Effectively reducing misinformation would require restructuring the online environments that promote and support its sharing.

These findings suggest that social media platforms can take a more active step than moderating what information is posted and instead pursue structural changes in their reward structure to limit the spread of misinformation."​

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"About the study: The research was supported and funded by the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Department of Psychology, the USC Marshall School of Business and the Yale University School of Management."​

Marahil ang isa sa root cause ay for the engagement kaya nagpapakalat ng false, inaccurate, or misleading, fake news, disinformation, misinformation. Iyon kasi ang bread and butter sa socmed. Meron po ba guilty ng gan'to sa forum(phcorner.org), specially in "Politics section" at "News and current events section"?

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'Influencers' agree: House disinfo hearing upholds free speech, social media needs regulation, Dominique Nicole Flores - Philstar.com, February 4, 2025 | 4:08pm
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"“The reason that their freedom of speech is being curtailed cannot be used. You were invited here to E×ρréšš your views as well. Isn't this the proper exercise of freedom of E×ρréššion?” Rep. Robert Ace Barbers (Surigao del Norte, 2nd District) said in Filipino. ​

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He asked political strategist Malou Tiquia, one of the invited social media influencers, whether she believed the hearing had breached their right to freedom of E×ρréššion and speech. ​

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“The fact that I agreed to appear and honor your invitation, and I was given the chance to say what I want to say, I don’t think that is a curtailment of my right to E×ρréššion,” Tiquia said.​

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She also agreed with Barbers that legislation is needed to enforce discipline and create a regulatory framework for content on social media.​

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“To directly respond to Congressman Barbers, yes, for the simple reason that the decency of the space has been grossed so much. So, yes,” Tiquia said, adding that some statements online are actually slanderous and libelous. ​

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Vlogger Marc Louie Gamboa also said in Filipino: “We should also look for ways to minimize or prohibit [disinformation] without curtailing everyone’s freedom of speech.” ​

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Barbers also clarified that the hearing did not only invite the vloggers and social media users to the hearing. The Tri-Comm has also invited experts and members of the academe who have studied the proliferation of disinformation in the country. ​

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The joining committee also invited representatives of major social media platforms like Facebook and TikTok, but they were not present. "​

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What experts said ​

Some of those are Ellen Tordesillas, president of the fact-checking organization VERA Files; Rachel Khan, a journalism professor at the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication; and Jonathan Ong, disinformation researcher.​

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Tordesillas explained that the responsibility of fact-checking should not fall solely on fact-checkers. She agreed that revisiting existing laws, such as the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, is essential to establish a code of ethics or regulatory framework for online content.​

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Meanwhile, Ong stressed that different kinds of legislation should be considered, not just imprisonment and fines penalizing social media users. ​

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He added that it can also be focused on “content corrections” or “administrative compliance measures” that bring firms to participate in transparency mechanisms.​

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Ong also said addressing disinformation needs to be “civil society-driven” and contextualized with the local situation. "​

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"Where were the other ‘influencers’?​

Some of the social media influencers absent had actively posted their comments online during the hearing. Several bloggers and vloggers also E×ρréššed their intention to file a petition for certiorari and prohibition before the Supreme Court.​

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A petition for certiorari is a legal remedy used to challenge a court, tribunal or government agency for acting without jurisdiction or committing grave abuse of power.​

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Meanwhile, a petition for prohibition, if granted by the Supreme Court, would halt the legislative inquiry.​

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According to former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, the legal counsel of the vloggers, the petitioners include political commentators Ernesto “Jun” Abines, Mark Anthony Lopez and Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) host Lorraine Badoy.​

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Badoy was convicted of indirect contempt for red-tagging a Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) judge.​

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The Quezon City RTC also ruled her claims about broadcast journalist Atom Araullo and his mother being linked to communist groups as defamatory."​