Disinformation and Freedom of the Press - Module 4 PDF

Disinformation and Freedom of the Press Module 4 Global Voices and Social Vision Jerome Benedict L. Alipasa, LPT, MPM.  OBJECTIVES At the end of the session, you should be able to: a. Discriminates reliable sources from sources of disinf...

Disinformation and Freedom of the Press Module 4 Global Voices and Social Vision Jerome Benedict L. Alipasa, LPT, MPM.  OBJECTIVES At the end of the session, you should be able to: a. Discriminates reliable sources from sources of disinformation b. Explains ways of valuing press freedom c. Dismantles disinformation from online algorithm  CLASS PROGRAM – MODULE 4 01 02 Review Preliminary Activities 03 04 Application and Abstraction Assessment Review  Slide 6 Anti-Asian Hate PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES  A Thousand Cuts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQpjfWV_p6E Analysis  PONDER ON THIS “Government created Journalist Maria Ressa places the disinformation networks so tools of the free press—and her people have no idea what freedom—on the line in defense of the truth is” truth and democracy. “We demanded a government “What we’re seeing held accountable” is…little cuts to Philippine democracy” ABSTRACTION Take notes and participate  Slide 12 Disinformation and Freedom of the Press Disinformation ○ false information spread in order to deceive people Freedom of the Press ○ the right of newspapers, magazines, etc., to report news without being controlled by the government  Disinformation and Slide 13 Freedom of the Press Image sources: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2017/press-freedoms-dark-horizon https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/misinformation-disinformation-compare Maria Ressa Nobel peace prize 2021 recipient for her work to “safeguard freedom of expression”  Slide 15 Disinformation and Freedom of the Press Technology for profit has become an insidious tool for tyranny globally Violence, Surveillance Destruction Lawfare jail, capitalism of trust shutdown  Disinformation and Slide 16 Freedom of the Press Lawfare The twisting the law to target those same groups ○ Used after the weaponization of social media in attacking certain groups 10 arrest warrants, 22 new complaints, potential new legal cases Alleged tax owed: P200,000, bail and bonds to stay free and keep working: far less than the P1.2 million A Philippine court on Tuesday acquitted Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and her media company Rappler of tax evasion charges filed during the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte, a move that may help but won't entirely calm concerns over media freedom in one of Asia's oldest democracies. Source: Time Magazine  Disinformation and Slide 18 Freedom of the Press Violence, jail, shutdown Senator Leila de Lima, a former justice secretary and head of the Commission on Human Rights – 6 years and counting in prison. Jess Malabanan - killed by a bullet to his head. He worked on Reuters’ drug war series that won a Pulitzer Prize. ABS-CBN, the largest broadcaster in the Philippines - lost its franchise to operate. Lawyers killed under the Duterte administration - at least 66, journalists – 22, human rights activists - 421 dead, trade union leaders and human rights activists - 9 (simultaneous early morning police raids - now known as Bloody Sunday)  Disinformation and Slide 20 Freedom of the Press Surveillance capitalism technology has degraded facts and broken our societies, and democracy for immense profit. atomized personal experiences are collected by machine learning for highly profitable micro-targeting operations a behavior modification system experimented on in real time with disastrous consequences. Studies have shown that lies laced with anger and hate spread faster and further than facts. A network that we took down in 2020 included a very limited effort to post about US politics, but primarily focused on the Philippines and Southeast Asia.  Disinformation and Slide 22 Freedom of the Press Destruction of trust Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without these, we have no shared reality, no rule of law, no democracy. Networks form a global nervous system of toxic sludge Disinformation in Social Networks and Bots: Simulated Scenarios of Its Spread from System Dynamics Rincon et al 2022  Slide 24 A Solution to Disinformation and Freedom of the Press #FactsFirstPH A pyramid model built that shows one way of how media, civil society, the academe, and the law can work together to deal with the viral speed of lies and the preferential distribution of anger and hate. Wrap Up the Discussion Checklist Application Generalization Valuing APPLICATION COUNT ME IN! At which stage do you think can you actively partake? Why and how? Wrap Up the Discussion Checklist Application Generalization Valuing GENERALIZATION Wrap Up the Discussion Checklist Application Generalization Valuing  VALUING Because of the freedom of the press, I can…. Wrap Up the Discussion Checklist Application Generalization Valuing Performance Task  PERFORMANCE TASK Slide 34 Performance Task No. 4: Why there is a need for the freedom of the press and to counter disinformation? Sample Outputs: Skit, News Report, Compilation of Disinformation Screenshots, etc. Note: Presentation should be around three (3) minutes only. 1 The output 2 The output 3 The output 4 The output 5 The output barely contains lacks creative shows creative shows creative shows creative creative elements elements elements elements elements making it making it making it impressive impressive, and impressive, astounding appealing, and astounding 1. The 2. The 3. The 4. The 5. The presentation was presentation was presentation was presentation was presentation was imprecise and lacks precision executed and executed with executed with needs structure and structure structure precision, and precision, structure conviction and evident structure  References https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/033022_Ressa_Testimony.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQpjfWV_p6E https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/disinformation https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freedom%20of%20the%20press https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/10/2/34 Thanks! Any questions? IG: jromebenedct 37