Duterte’s troll armies drown out COVID-19 dissent in the Philippines

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Duterte’s troll armies drown out COVID-19 dissent in the Philippines
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Trolls and bots are deflecting criticism of President Duterte’s handling of the worsening crisis. From CodaStory:

On a sweltering Monday morning in Manila, Nic Gabunada is sitting at his laptop, working from home. Gabunada is a former CEO of Omnicom Media Group Philippines and currently executive director of his own communications and marketing company. Before this, he served for two years as the head of President Rodrigo Duterte’s social media team and played an integral part of his 2016 election campaign.to a network of 200 pages removed by Facebook for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour.

This is a particular concern during a global health crisis. As Covid-19 has rampaged across the globe, so too have anti-science narratives and conspiracy theories related to the virus. The PhilippinesVisuals by Sofiya Viznaya for Coda Story Amidst one of the longest lockdowns in the world, Gabunada, like many of Manila’s 12.5 million inhabitants, watches all of this from home quarantine. As a healthy distraction, he has taken up kitchen gardening, growing vegetables at home.

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