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I'm sure they want to take control of the social media, since Duterte has pretty much been spreading fake news [0] along with his facebook army of trolls [1 & 2] to discredit the opposition. And sometimes even members of the Duterte cabinet [3] are doing it as well to link the opposition to a terrorist conspiracy. He even has some control in twitter, having been discovered by a social media analytics firm that 20% of those who mention Duterte are actually bots [4].

sources:

[0] http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/19/17/duterte-says-he-invent...

[1] http://preen.inquirer.net/58185/a-list-of-mocha-usons-fake-n...

[2] https://memebuster.net/thinking-pinoy-apologized-posting-fak...

[3] http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/905074/robredo-slams-aguirre-fo...

[4] https://newrepublic.com/article/138952/rodrigo-dutertes-army...

parent jpamata 9 years ago

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