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#1 The Philippines was ruled by Colonel Ferdinand Marcos in 1977. In 1986, mass protests led to the downfall of his regime. Today, Manila is a city of twenty-two million people with almost no notion of common public space.
#2 The Philippines has the world's highest use of selfies, and the highest use of social media per capita. It has also become a capital for a new breed of digital-era manipulation.
#3 The Philippines election was driven by digital influence. Duterte's campaign manager created a series of Facebook groups in different cities, and posted one local crime story per day, every day, to coincide with peak Internet traffic. The stories were real enough, but then his people would write comments that connected the crime to drugs.
#4 Down in the slums of the disinformation architecture were the community-level fake account operators, who were paid by the hour to create social media personas and promote their candidate.
#1 The Philippines was ruled by Colonel Ferdinand Marcos in 1977. In 1986, mass protests led to the downfall of his regime. Today, Manila is a city of twenty-two million people with almost no notion of common public space.
#2 The Philippines has the world's highest use of selfies, and the highest use of social media per capita. It has also become a capital for a new breed of digital-era manipulation.
#3 The Philippines election was driven by digital influence. Duterte's campaign manager created a series of Facebook groups in different cities, and posted one local crime story per day, every day, to coincide with peak Internet traffic. The stories were real enough, but then his people would write comments that connected the crime to drugs.
#4 Down in the slums of the disinformation architecture were the community-level fake account operators, who were paid by the hour to create social media personas and promote their candidate.