Jeffrey Epstein in 2010 hired a team in the Philippines to clean up online search results tied to his criminal past. PR experts tell us it’s for the same reasons why we’re a booming BPO capital: We have skilled, English-speaking workers you can pay at lower costs. Definitely an ethical gray zone for the local industry, too.
https://t.co/Fcp2Q8FaUu
Fresh off New Media & Society! First publication in 2025 on "covert political campaigning" focused on investigating influencers across 4 social media platforms during elections using field and computational methods + economic modeling ✨https://t.co/lFcFV2Ax5z With my co-authors—
A group of Filipino scholars who had led pioneering research on "fake news" in the Philippines has launched an online portal that promises to help Filipinos combat disinformation ahead of the 2025 midterm elections.
READ: https://t.co/V2BtO3hmYg
Here's an update from the last hearing on the website blocking case. The Philippine government admits censorship of 27 websites w/o considering international standards mentioned by UN independent expert @Irenekhan .
OUT NOW! A collab article with Prof @jay_marlowe and his brilliant research team in New Zealand. The article “Mapping digital citizenship among resettled refugees' social media use in New Zealand” is published in @nz_sociology. Link: https://t.co/2jNWACRJP9 #digital#refugees
Key takeaways from the first major study of #redtagging in the Philippines:
🚩 Women are #redtagged more than men
🚩 Most red-tagging done by govt or its agents
🚩 Most online redtagging done on @Facebook@FBoversight, mostly by city/town police stations
🚩 Student activists particularly hit hard
🚩 Terror-tagging increasing
🚩 Real-life impact on advocacy work
@ahrctweets Ateneo Human Rights Center Red-Tagging Monitoring Project - Situation Report (as of 5 July 2024) https://t.co/ijVWxeNNwF
#Cheers to @PCIJdotOrg for a report that provided the necessary background to the appointment of the new agriculture secretary. The report underscores the pattern of patronage politics and dynastic alliances from one administration to another.
https://t.co/kiPdRbIlTd
'An estimated PhP 600 million to 1.5 billion was spent on political influencers in the 2022 Philippine Elections.'
Thank you @Internews for supporting this excellent research by @fatimagaw@lanuzer @samuelcabbuag @smallofasia & colleagues.
https://t.co/angJRrZc9N
🚨🚨🚨 NOW OUT: First-of-its-kind investigation on the scope, scale, and cost of commissioning influencers for political campaigns in the Philippines.
See our report here: https://t.co/0oey4h9aHX
How has the Philippine disinformation landscape evolved since 2016? How different was 2022 from previous electoral cycles?
Our report led by @rcfallorina & @lanuzer with Juan Gabriel Felix, @ferds_sanchez and @jonathan_c_ong is out now.
@Internews
https://t.co/BmqGjMp0FQ
Statement | On the shooting of photojournalist Joshua Abiad
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines joins the media community in condemning the shooting of Remate Online photojournalist Joshua Abiad, which left him and three relatives wounded.
Come to the inaugural conference of the Sociology of Elites Working Group 📢
🔴Keynote presentations by Sam Friedman, Aaron Reeves, and Sarah Kunz
📆12 June, 9.30am to 5.00pm
Read through the programme ���
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Book now for ‘Toward a Dialogical Sociology’, a presentation given by Professor Sari Hanafi at a BSA Post/Decolonial Transformations Study Group event, 7 June, Cambridge https://t.co/N1jccoqbfq #Sociology