Ong, Jonathan Corpus and Cabañes, Jason Vincent. 2018. Architects of Networked Disinformation: Behind the Scenes of Troll Accounts and Fake News Production in the Philippines. Project Report. Newton Tech4Dev Network. [Report]

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This report aims to develop a critique of the ecological vulnerabilities in the Philippines that enables politicians to recruit highly skilled, if corruptible, disinformation architects to collude with them without industry self-regulatory sanctions and mechanisms in place. This report also identifies large gaps in Philippine campaign finance legislation and digital platform regulation, and proposes preliminary recommendations to address these issues. Finally, this study aims to invite ethical reflection about the process in which ordinary people become complicit in deception work as they aspire for financial gain or seek political and symbolic power. Through the set of preliminary recommendations we present, we open the conversation as to how we can reinvigorate professional ethics, uphold worker justice, and create cross-sectoral advisory groups with lawyers, academics, platform designers, and creative professionals to address our individual, social, and cultural complicity in networked disinformation.

Item Type:	Report (Project Report)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Date:	February 2018
Item ID:	37414
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2024 15:23
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2024 15:23
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37414

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