the founder of online site rock. forty is fake news it is whatever power doesn't like. the president of the philippines rodrico detect a says he wants to kill as many people involved with drugs as possible analysts his critics public. rappler on my new site known to be critical of the

government had its license revoked a few weeks ago. is to silence when people don't know what is real and what is free when facts don't matter then. voice with the loudest megaphone gains more power. i'm facing seven cases some of which can put me in jail up to fifteen years. now r rob blues boss says a w war of attrition s on the way when she and her colllleagues at the term in two weeks.s. herere's what we know e know that an arrest warrant. has been issued obviously. it makes you feel vulnerable. right no this is the time t to fighght this is the time to tell people here's here's the. and you have to make sure that our government doesn't cross it because when it does. we're no longer. i am a pretend

millennial but i am turning fifty five fifty five years allow i've been a journalist for. . more than thirty years. like softly best play list resuming spotify. when our president bridging the detector was elected the campaign machinery that helped elect him how was weaponized and went after anyone who was critical of the drugg war and also journalist in particular were targeted. thisis is more for troops a and the biggest casualy in the war for truth is how many people have been killed in the drug war. i'm at the front lines i feeling i know it. i have the data to prove. here's what happened in the

philippines when facebook looking to toxic i watch alexa ranking every day which is a websbsite ranking of all the- wy the people the *-* go. and before. it's lxx. . this dadaughter. and yet you have a r lexus how can you plan for the future of what we can become if you don't try it part of the problem with the old power right now is they don't understand new technology and part of the problem with the people who build the new technologies they don't understand. old power that's what needs to merge. facebook changed. and in the phippppines it. is the internet. the journalist real estate that. in the end it comes down to the

platforms and social media in particular will determine what gets delivered to people. in january twenty eighteen the government of the philippines tried to shut rapper down we're being investigated and t there were four facing legal cases one on ownership that could land me in prison for anywhere from five to fifteen years. the court of appeals came out with a decision after midnight the night our appeal. harassment it is to distractct does it iss to stop us from reporting it's to intimidate and so we don't. so we don't. i think the biggest wakeup call for the government was the day after the they tried to shut down rockler.

there was a global reaction to it so i don't think they counted on that. they also didn't count the rapper would fight. rappler was a dream. in twenty eleven a group of friends and i kind of thought that this this new technology that is that we can't completely try out inside traditional networks because everything that made traditional media successful will go against what we wanted to do . statement glenda. yeah we started with twelve people four five of us were about forty at that point. anand then

we hire the smartest twenty somethings with. is this a good luck with the with the mug. howw do i fixix with i think it's largely a fixable i mean i would try to fix it the forty is and why don't i start because you hear from the london school of economics. i will. introduce you. our r swer is done a l lot of thgrground brbreaking work on looking at russian this information. by. peterr pomerantz of welcome t to manila let me just figure o out were being manipipulated they're disinformation a and misinformation campaigns by both state actors and private interests what we do about it there's a much deeper question is that social media has kind of fueled a new type off. hi my

temple populism's much more mature. and with an enemy abstracts one who is blocking your very private grievances the staff restaurant dedelete forereigners doeoesn't mattetero you you actually wrwrote a lot about russian d disinformation how would you define think about it from the point of view of a leader with authoritarian tendencies. so back in the twenty century you could. you could shut off your population. with censorship right you can just block off tv channels account do that anymore right so instead of trying to sense the things you spread as much cynicism is possibly on the mind the idea of trust you say yeah i may be a media or some but for the b. b. c. c. n. n.n. rapla therere will boards i want to undermine the idea that there's any kind of truth out that. little thisind of letet his ememotions and so o only the most emotional investor emotional leader r wins it seems like in the short term. only the tech giants have the

ability to quickly fix certain ththings if we. start uniting. right the forces of good. no that's it cacan be totorrow it s truly a reasoson. right now yeah let's. is that started it started. and w we need a a litte bit mamaybe some resources to help with that. so we s start acting so strategically. facebook has admitted that the philippines is patient zero in the war against thihis information. twenty sixteen the campaign machinery of now president detective. used facebook and social media to win n an election. but they didn't stop there we began to see these vicious attacks on facebook against anyone who questioned. the killings in the drug war and in october i wrote this three part series on the- propaganda war. when we released it i was attacked the propaganda machine came after

us with a bag in it was immediate. you know i've been called every animal you can think of i my sexual life has beenen dissected and at the beginning i faced it like a traditional journalists we try to fight it. then you realize known you can't. it's not t ilt. you can you don't fight this by looking up content. you fight this by looking at the networks and lookinat algorithms. that's when i realized something was going on and we began gathering data. so we call it the shark tank but what it is truly. social networks spread disinformation that have been used in attacks so we have more than three hundred fifty million comments one fifteen million accounts. so the data set it is probably the largest outside of facebook. the key thing here is to o go back to te

way the detector can paint ran the social media campaigns this show organized that they have a content creator for the elite then there's a content creator a blogger for the middle class and then the blogger for the mass base is now the head of the social media. for the presidential palace. looking at that database you can pull out key words you can pull out attacks and you can get to. exactly how the attack began and the velocity sprpread. to te shark tank. connenected it t toa select channels if something is spreading beyond a a certain frequency will send. us all a a numberer one to factct check ite can sesend. and face the president. in august of twenty sixteen i gave facebook the data that we had and i said you really have to look at this becaususe you know you have us elections coming up and this is so alarming thatat. trump couldd win. and we all laughed we. and

then went from one in november they ask me for the. in the french elections thatt data helped pull down thirty thousand. this database big data is the story of how plus the markers. became a dictatorship that's certainly what we seem to have. so. can still fight it and were using that. blue is the color of this and that this is three. is legal processes are being used against us that does have impact on the business because the minute an advertiser now signed a contract witith rapper there's a risk involved for them. so what w wneed is vevery quicickly when we saw the trend

and that thehe advertisers were scared we then came up with a whole slew of different products that we could offer. so discovering the propaganda machine. led us to our new business model if you think about. ththis is a big t tng wewe're sellingg here locally it is what we did building commmmunity f for what we did fr rarap is what wheeler were offering to do for t them but it is data. driven analytics for social media narrative strategy and then distribution strategy when i look at what came to settle thehe could did. and how you know certain political parties use social media to understand and then five and theyey create messaging and t tn target. i m mean in that sense that's a lot of what this is and i'm just wonderiring what te trystt the day. so i cananalk and then carla can also talklk o good for me because the cynical view is well this is psychological. manipulation using technology. sorrrry right

market marketing in general. this is actutually. remember wht was wrong with the maternal annika it wasn't the psychological analysis it was the way they gotot their data right reach the bridge and the show so you're in the census it's okay to think influence yourur psychological oututlook t it's not okay to steal data is that really what is world ending up on it companies don't know how to use social media well except to put ads. and facebook and they're realizing that that's not a good thing. do you think mom and dad we yeah we should it's their anniversary right yeah. hi mom. photo from florida. to see.

tatalk to momom and. dad i'm goa show youou the so we're havi. around all of f us and those tht we love and those that we care for so that we- walk in your life in many. one is mine alone known anyone touch. you see the case. yes. he also. i'm not gonna get emotional. stop. although you guys do you guys worry about two to maria. i worry about. also i think the you just tell me what you think i need to know. which is probably okay too. the end goal of all of this is to actually take up the last of the c city.

right as for me i think a lot of. you have to do after hearing. maybe a. when the case came and they were threatening to shut us down we were like we're not gonna doc that's like an old lady. yeah. the. we a looking for new products that rapper can build right obviously we're working on it we'd like to work with you because every person in this room has not just displayed great talent at what they do but it's also comomtted in n a different way so that's our end goal this is my- really it's- me. so i don't have kids right.

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the rational is really taking care of the team . you've got to look for full. in collaboration it's hope in solidarity. i came to paris to join this commission that it's an inaugural meeting of about twenty people were working on this information in different parts of the world president micron will meet with us and it's something that is it's

really an initiative by the reporters. our sf forty cents frontiers. i think the technology platforms a social media platforms are forced to cocoront what they've creat that what they've done now w is alallowed. evil networks to take over and that has actually had an impact on democracies around the world. sold it's gonna be interesting . nice to see you again. can you have wifi here yes okay i will i will set up because i've t tried a live streamamed eventnt on raptors et f. f. a. l. f. f. a. two one

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fall this the small round table about situations as welll i think they should do the two were doesn't head office us use a journanalist and c o of the rock. you know almost 97% of filipinos or on thehe internett are on facebook for rappler social media is both a positive and a negative itit is both good and evil depending on how it's used but free speech is being used to stifle free speech w w is usesed to pound you into sisilence and. . and for alall r countries. how do we. . free speech with out the excesses of people who want to manipulate. this new technology. the condition in the philippines is offering us a capsule into the future. all we're seeing gold

retiring. this is anton from rss here in a body the nobel prize laureates insignia from moscow. mananage y your roles fr use or some. pain it's. the french understand facebebook taken down the thirty thousand. may nonot. or they don't really think that that's. for the study. you have come to our country. how would yoyou descrie journanalism in turkrkey today. with interest professional.

imagine a country who have a chance. to reach the food like cool. so we need to find a global solutions to this kind. who is president micron i want to understand how one head of state who's holding the line for the leasing looks at it and what he thinks is even possible i would ask him what can be done what are other leaders in. democracies talking about. will the levy manila in manila yeah i had the money in the many many years ago. please if you ever come i'd love to show you. how long have you been in exile. since two thousand ninine. and

your family. i hope i don't have to go into exile. i mostly think that. i. whatat did you think the meeting with president. i sufficiently cycynical but myy normall pectationn f for a meeeeting wih the head o of state i is that wl bebe a problem. but essentially will be a performance for some political. but it t was a remarkable senense thahat you we actually having a conversation with somebody y who actually ha. to influence our political

rerelations so we'll see what actually comes of it. it was an off the record discussion with him. one is one of the leaders that was targeted by these bad actors and social media. is he a leader with liberal values does he stand for things that the geopolitical actors did not one who is behind those thirty thousand fake accounts that's interesting. he probably knows he certainly didn't say anything about. the constitution of the philippines gives me certain rights to protect my ability to do my job all that was stripped away by the social media platforms. there is absolutely no accountability for the platforms to spread lies exponentially. you should not allow it to spread that's what i'm looking for that's in you get to the

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