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A survey found that 86% of Filipinos believe fake news is a problem. 58% see social media influencers, bloggers and vloggers as the main spreaders of political fake news. Filipinos said the top sources of fake news about government and politics come from the internet and television. While 44% are certain they can identify fake political news, 44% are unsure. A digital rights group believes the best way to fight fake news is spreading more factual information rather than legislation.

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Copyreading and Headline Writing Exercise 2

A survey found that 86% of Filipinos believe fake news is a problem. 58% see social media influencers, bloggers and vloggers as the main spreaders of political fake news. Filipinos said the top sources of fake news about government and politics come from the internet and television. While 44% are certain they can identify fake political news, 44% are unsure. A digital rights group believes the best way to fight fake news is spreading more factual information rather than legislation.

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Copyreading and Headline Writing Exercise 2 – October 10, 2022

DIRECTION: Edit the article below using copyreading symbols. Provide at least two headlines
for the article. Provide slugline, unit counts and printer’s directions. Do this exercise for at
most 60 minutes only.

Headline 1:

Headline 2:

MANILA, Philippines — Nearly nine out of ten Filipinos believes that fake news are a problem in

the country which a small majority of damn blame on social media influencers, blogers and

vlogers.

According to the polls, 58% of Filipinos sees social media influencers, bloggers and

vloggers as peddlers of fake news about goverment and politics, followed by journalists at 40%,

national politicians at 37% and lokal politicians at 30%.

A new survey by private pollster Polls Asia released Tuesday reveals that 86% of Filipino adults

say that false news or fake news is a problem, while only 14% say otherwise.

Filipinos said the top sources of fake news about the government and politics come from

the internet or television which is statistically tie at 68% and 67%, respectively. Radio comes in

near third with 32% viewing it as a source of miss information.


Filipinos are banana split as to wheather they are sure that the political news they

consume is reel, with 44% saying they are certain that what they read is not fake, while another

44% say they are unsure.

Still, 55% said they are confidence of Filipinos’ ability to discern whether the political news

they encounter is truthful and only 7% say otherwise.

The survey was conducted from September 17 to 21, using face to face interviews. It was

based on a sample of 1,200 representative adults 18 years old and below.

Fake news has long been seen as a scourge in the largely online Philippines, so much so

that lawmakers have tried to legislate penalties for spreading false information.

The latest attempt to purnish the spreading of fake news came from Sen. Joseph Estrada,

who filed Senate Bill No. 1296 which seeks to make the creation and dissimination of

disinformation a content-related offense under the anticybercrime law.

But for digital rights group Democracy.net.PH, the only contitutional means to fight fake

news is the spreading of more facts.

“The only constitutionally-aceptable means of fighting fake news and disinformation is

the more aggresive dissimination of factual news and information,” Democracy.net.US’s Tess

Termulo told Philstar.com in an online exchange.

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