In this era of fake news, is it inappropriate to say America is ahead in terms of the fact-checking police? This goes for many who work in the media, scanning and analyzing our content. It is both terrifying and reassuring to know that the second someone on Facebook posts disinformation, someone else is checking for evidence of this particular fact. In the Philippines, however, there has been a recent awakening of fake news as well. The Philippines, known for their celebrities doubling as political icons, struggles as “disinformation on social media persists amid the COVID-19 pandemic and with the 2022 national elections on the horizon.” This has led to a rise of professionals stepping up to fact-check, and encouraging other media outlets to do so as well. While the concept of disinformation is discomforting, the fact that huge issues within America or the Philippines, or anywhere else, brought on a new information era is quite fascinating. It almost makes you want to thank those politicians in 2016 who used the term incessantly, even though it was seldom true, because we as a society have risen to fight in this disinformation era.
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