00:00A group of questionable content online against the Philippines and the President is on the alert,
00:07particularly on the issue of the West Philippine Sea.
00:09Whatever happens, it will have an effect on the election, according to a group.
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00:21In the hearing of the House Tri-Committee on the Spreading of Fake News and Disinformation in the Country,
00:27a group called Press1PH announced that they monitored the online network of a social media account
00:33that spreads questionable content against the Philippines and President Bumbong Marcos,
00:38particularly on the alleged involvement of our government in the issue of the West Philippine Sea.
00:43In their tweets, they frame this issue as the Philippines becoming a puppet of the US.
00:51America has an involvement here.
00:53They claim that it was funded by the US and America is aware of what the Philippines is doing in the West Philippine Sea.
01:01This is to sow a narrative that the Philippines is wrong in talking about the West Philippine Sea.
01:06We should not be there.
01:08Although this is just one of the many issues that are being posted by those behind the organized social media network,
01:16it will have an effect on the upcoming election.
01:19This is very alarming, ma'am, especially that this happened and we saw this ahead of a very crucial election.
01:27And a lot of the information that they use when they enter the polling precinct, they get from social media.
01:34Because if our electorate is not informed or misinformed or disinformed,
01:39we will not be able to give 100% confidence in our election.
01:44This is the database of Press1PH and based on what they discovered,
01:49it turns out that there are more than 107 accounts that are posting almost the same things at the same time.
01:5825 of these are Chinese account names.
02:03These accounts are trying to appear as if they are legitimate by people.
02:09So we cannot identify who is running these things.
02:13But what we can say is, they understand Chinese.
02:17Comelec knows that there are groups like this spreading misinformation and propaganda to influence the election.
02:24It can be used in the candidacy of some of our candidates.
02:29It can be used to confuse our countrymen, especially to spread rumors that are not true.
02:36So we will take down those platforms if necessary.
02:41We will try to commit our platforms to their seriousness
02:46to help Comelec campaign against fake news, misinformation, and disinformation.
02:52According to the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center or CICC,
02:56it is important for the public to be taught the importance of verifying content
03:01especially if there are tools to do so.
03:04CICC showed on GMA Integrated News their app
03:08that can detect deepfake videos on social media.
03:12They say it takes hours to activate the app
03:14and put in the leaked video.
03:16The result will be out within 30 seconds if the content is fake or true.
03:21So instead of continuously being deceived by the content,
03:26they have increased their discernment capability.
03:32They can vote properly, they can vote wisely.
03:38For GMA Integrated News, Maryse Umali for Tutok, 24 hours.
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