Cost on aljazeera. Digital media. Is the founder of online side. For 2 years fake news it is whatever power doesnt like the president of the philippines abroad we go to turkey says he wants to kill as many people involved with drugs doesnt possible and lists his critics as public enemy. Rap learned and online you cite and known to be critical of the government had its license revoked and few weeks ago the end goal is to silence dissent when people dont know what is real and what is fate when facts dont matter then the voice with the loudest megaphone gains more power and. Im facing 7 cases some of which can put him in jail up to 15 years. Now rock blues paul says a war of attrition is on the way one she and her colleagues are determined to weave heres what we know we know that the rest arent an issue obviously. It makes you feel bad but i think its like right now this is the time to fight this is the time to tell people here heres the mind and you have to make sure that our government doesnt cross it because when it does were no longer in the. I am a pretend millennial but im turning 5555 years old wow ive been a journalist for. More than 30 years. Alexa play best play list resuming spanish. When our president or a good detective was elected the Campaign Machinery that helped elect him was weaponized and went after anyone who was critical of the drug war and also journalists in particular were targeted. This is a war for troops and the biggest casualty in the world for is how many people have been killed in the drug war im at the front lines i feel it i know it i have the data to prove it. Heres what happened in the philippines when facebook became too toxic i watch alexa ranking every day which is a website ranking of of all the where can people in the peano school and before. Its aleck so. It doesnt really want to yes why are you buying this information. And you have an. Ok new plan for the future of what we can become a few dont try it part of the problem with the old power right now is they dont understand new technology and part of the problem with the people who build the new technology is they dont understand old power thats what needs to merge. Facebook changed. And in the philippines it really is thing internet. The journalist royalist gatekeepers thats dead. In the head it comes down to the block forms social media in particular will determine what gets delivered to people. In january 28th the government of the philippines tried to shut rappler down were being investigated and that were facing legal cases one on ownership that could land me in prison for anywhere from 5 to 15 years. The court of appeals came out with a decision after midnight that night our appeal to harassment it is to distract us it is to stop us from reporting its to intimidate us so we dont. So we dont challenge. I think that the biggest wake up call for the government was the day after they they tried to shut down rappler. There was a Global Reaction to it so i dont think they counted on that. They also didnt count that raptor would fight. Rappler was a dream. In 2011 group of friends and i kind of thought that theres this new technology that is that we cant completely try out in the Traditional Networks because everything that made traditional media successful would go against what we wanted to do. Was. Getting tonight tweak something on the one hand. But your post. Lets post that story thats the best statement glenda. Yeah we started with 12 people 4 or 5 of us were about 40 about pleasant. And and then we hired the smartest 20 somethings we could find. Is a good look at that with a mug yes. I would do it how do i fix what i think its largely unfixable i mean ive been trying to fix of it for 40 years and thats why dont i start because youre here from the London School of economics i will introduce you to pomeranz and use that a lot of the groundbreaking work on looking at russia this information. Peter pomerantz of welcome to manila let me just figure out were being manipulated there descend from asian and misinformation campaigns by both state actors and private interests what do we do about it theres a much deeper question is that social media has kind of a few a new type of. What i might term populism is much more emotional. And with an enemy very abstract one who is blocking your very private grievances the establishment the elite foreigners doesnt matter so you you actually wrote a lot about russian this information how would you define think about it from the point of view of a leader with author a tarion tendencies so back in the 20th century you could you could shut off your population. With censorship you could just block off t. V. Channels you cant do that anymore so instead of trying to censor things you spread as much cynicism as possible you undermined the idea of trust you say yeah maybe our media isnt perfect the b. B. C. C. N. N. Theyre all bored i want to undermine the idea that there is any kind of truth out there that all this kind of left is emotion and so only the most emotional. And viscerally emotional the the whims it seem like in the short term only the tech giants have the ability to quickly fix certain things if we start uniting. The forces of good. Diversity we could be tomorrow it is true. Now who not only is it started it started we need a little bit of maybe some resources to help with out so we start acting sort of strategically. Facebook has admitted that the philippines is patient 0 in the war against this information 2016 the Campaign Machinery of now president to tear down used facebook and social media to win an election but they didnt stop there he began to see these vicious attacks on facebook against anyone who questioned the killings in the drug war and in october i wrote this 3 part series on the propaganda war when we released it i was attacked the Propaganda Machine came after us without gagging in then it was immediate you know ive been called every animal you can think of my sexual life has been dissected and at the beginning i faced it like a traditional journalist where you try to fight it and you realize no you cant its not built up when you can you dont fight this by looking at content you fight this by looking at networks and looking at algorithms thats when i realized something new was going on and we began gathering data. So we call it the shark tank but what it is is its truly being. Treated even the social networks that spread this information that have been used in attacks so we have more than 350000000 comments more than 50000000 accounts. So its a big data set is probably the largest outside of facebook. The key thing here is to go back to the way the new tactic campaign ran the social media campaigns is so organized that they have a content creator for the elite then theres 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 president ial palace looking at that database you can pull out keywords you can pull out attacks and you can get to exactly how the attack began and the velocity spread. To the shark tank we connected it to a slack channel if something is friending beyond a certain frequency it will send us all an alert once we fact check it we can send it to facebook and facebook of the president. In august of 2016 i gave facebook the data that we had and i said you really have to look at this because you know you have u. S. Elections coming up and this is so alarming that trump could win. And we all laughed we laughed. And then when trump won in november they asked me for the dog. In the french elections that helped pull down 30000 feet of comics. This database this big data is is the story of how the mockers. Became a dictatorship and thats certainly what we seem to have so we can still fight it and were using to beat it to death. Im going to do is a color is going to raise. Very little when you have these legal processes are being used against us that does have impact on the business because the minute an advertiser now signs a contract with rappler theres a risk involved for them so what we did is very quickly when we saw the trend and that that advertisers were scared we then came up with a whole slew of different products that we could offer so this country the Propaganda Machine led us to our new Business Model if you think about. Its a specific thing were selling your local it is what we did Building Community for what we did for rappler is what we were offering to do for them but it is data driven social media narrative strategy and distribution strategy. What can settle the good and how you know certain Political Parties use social media. And the messaging. Thats a lot of this is im just wondering if theres. So i can talk and then carlo can also talk so for me because the cynical view is this is psychological manipulation to tell the. Story right marketing in general. Which is actually. There you go remember once rival team in china it was the psychological analysis it was the way they got their data breach the breach of the. Senses its ok to. Influence your psychological outlook but its not ok to steal data that really we already know companies dont know how to use social well except to put ads on facebook and theyre realizing that thats not a good. Time is it you think mom and dad are we should its a anniversary yeah im on i was going to send you the photo from florida you got to see talk to talk to mom and dad im going to show you the sort of the. Having dinner the kids are here nino see here. Really briefly my guys love you love me much and a. Large thank you for this meal please put a hedge of protection around on the bus and those that we had. And those that we care for so that we. Can walk in here and buy in this. One is mine alone dont anyone to touch you see the case. Yes yes the bills were going to actually get im sure you all this. Im not going to get emotional so stop although you guys do you guys worry about teacher mary and. Dont worry about me. I worry about you. Also i think you just tell me what you think i need to know which is probably ok too. But the end goal of all of this is to actually take up space so the less space it takes up the better right as for me i fix it with a lot of prayer so what do you have to do after hearing what i really have no worries maybe i could finish but. When the case came and they were threatening to shut us down we were like were not going to doc thats like an old way. Right yeah. Im connecting was connecting me. I but maybe we are looking for new products that rappler can build. Obviously were working on it but wed like to work with you because every person in this room has not just displayed great talent at what they do but is also committed in a different way so thats our end goal this is really its i mean so i dont have kids really i realized my my longest relationship was with truism guys and you will get i will send an email of all of the awards that you guys because theyve been incredible all of its been good to hear it even if its been a bad difficult. Start to the year ok. But i think the energy of the folks are one of the reasons we survived and we continue battling through the bush nothing it feels like when we act like a team nothing will get in our day and we can barrel through it people are throwing their lives into it right people its not just me its our its raptors look at their face its. Like they should be emotional. They believe. So i dont. Know but you know with. Any stock. Actually the easy part is the rational is really taking to the. You gotta look for a hole in collaboration its hope in solidarity. I came to paris to join this commission and its an inaugural meeting of about 20 people who are working on this information in different parts of the world president kron will meet with us and its something that is its really an initiative by the reporters are s. F. Porter sense for 2 years. I think the Technology Platforms the social media platforms are forced to confront what theyve created that what theyve done now is allowed. Evil networks to take over and that has actually had an impact on democracies around the world. Sold. Its going to be interest. Nice to see you get a question i have wife i think its ok i will i will set up as ill try to live stream for the event. If if if a true 17 thank you. Yes receives all. The details from just a little of the because you feel that the solution on the new. It sure you were trying. To do. You know its horrible when that it will be contra lighting you know political fights you see lots of walks needed to see if you just got to 21 thats when youre young you need to. Go over. The system sounds stupid but if you know whats good you know my nose most song put you in the mood at our poll on how many choices. The business uses infamous truly evil on the part of the government you dont get a civil. Thats perfect. So im honored to be the one who has a good share momentum in this condition she received the only things arise she did that well and she is one of the chairs of this commission along with others that you just spoke to this will this is the. Wrong table about situations the world of the pleasure. To work here has joined that is of. You know almost 97 percent of filipinos who are on the internet are on facebook for rappler social media is both a positive and a negative it is both good and evil depending on how its used but free speech is being used to stifle free speech hate is used to pound you into silence and for all of our countries how do you give free speech with out the excesses of people who want to manipulate this new technology because in addition to feeling is offering a parachute into the future but well see who the leader of. This is and on come our s. F. Share in a bad mood the Nobel Prize Winner and a moscow want to manage the dual role. Sols british subject is spains like of lots of like. Its good stuff what do you think the french understand of the facebook poll taken down the 30000 take up how its the from up on may not the present. Or they dont really think that thats that the price of spectacles its not ordinary to me its an interesting question whether it is or is shoulder to shoulder on that Center Stage Show in. The school on actual behavior yet front of the field very very poorly studied and often you have to use them to come to our countries. How would you describe journalism in turkey today. Is risky and dangerous profession and. Imagine a country you come from a chance to reach the truth despite removes. Some heat from find solutions to these movements this one. Living under the influence of. Even our president ron i want to understand how one head of state whos holding the line what the way he looks at it and what he thinks is even possible to ask him what can be done what are other leaders in democracies talking. One thing we. Will be leaving money a lot in manila there i had been among the many many years ago on please if you ever come and love to show you the city how long have we been in exile says 2000. And your family has been the aggressor and thats. Why. I hope i dont have to go into exile. So you do the demos we need you to go i will say that those. Of. You. Need. To. Look at just a click if you think the meeting took place on a sufficiently similar call that my normal expectation for a big thing we have a head of state is. There will be a problem that essentially will be a performance for so political but it was a remarkable soon is that you were actually in the situation with somebody you had to be. To influence the political relations so well see what actually comes of it. It was an off the record discussion with him not chronos one of the leaders that was targeted by these bad actors on social media is he the leader with liberal values that he stand for things that the geo political actors did not want who was behind those 30000 fake accounts thats interesting to me he probably knows he certainly did say anything about. The constitution of the philippines gives me certain rights to protect my ability to do my job all of that was stripped away by the social media platforms there is absolutely no accountability for the platforms to spread lies exponentially and should not allow it to spread thats what im looking for thats a good thing. Bit of a strange day to start. We just heard to date a city of aleppo has fallen. Or should we say liberated. One knowing for astonishing stories toads and their own words how did you know who to trust and who not to trust. A stranger came to town witness on aljazeera. 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