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Rest of World / Peter Guest
/ Oct 30“The president, his spokespeople, his ministers, and his surrogates habitually make or repeat unfounded accusations against their opponents while broadcasting inflated or entirely fabricated accounts of their own success. Those claims — in fact, almost the entirety of the country’s mainstream political discourse — are mediated through Facebook, which is used by 97% of Filipinos with internet access. That has given the platform an outsize influence in Filipino politics, even as it tries to stay above the fray, declining to fact-check political figures and relying instead on its highly subjective ‘community standards’ to police threats of violence.” —
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