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The human cost of disinformation: How fake news turns victims into peddlers
When fact-checkers dug into fake news flooding YouTube and TikTok, they found something deeper — ordinary Filipinos caught in a web of lies. In this episode, Regine Cabato speaks with Nikko Balbedina of PressONE.ph about the rise of “news cycle disinformation”—and how it turns victims into unwitting spreaders of falsehoods.
Listen as they unpack how profit, algorithms, and emotion shape the information we believe.
This episode was produced by Bubbles Magpayo and engineered by Anthony Tobias. Jaemark Tordecilla is our editor-at-large.
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Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago