According to Fatima Gaw, a UP professor and researcher, the Philippines is “Patient Zero” in the global disinformation crisis.

The use of networked spreaders of online falsehoods in the 2016 elections foreshadowed what was to come elsewhere in the world.

Fatima has compared disinformation to the coronavirus, difficult to detect but highly infectious. 

Listen as Fatima shares her findings and insights on “fake news” and the algorithms that can target the unaware, trapping them in a web of lies.

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