A recent viral video of a student hitting a mall security guard with sampaguita garlands sparked heated online debates. This incident highlights Filipinos' tendency to overreact emotionally to visual content, often lacking critical analysis and factual understanding. The article explores this phenomenon, connecting it to the spread of misinformation and societal issues like mendicancy, security guard training, and lack of focus on pressing problems like poverty and crime.
THE recent incident involving a girl in a school uniform hitting a mall security guard with her sampaguita garlands as she was shooed away has evoked strong emotions from netizens. A lot has been said about the actions of both parties and who is to blame for the disturbance. The mall's owners were criticized for directing their security guards to be strict in removing beggars from their premises. Others blamed the girl's parents for letting her out unsupervised on the streets at night.
Few people know that this story was concocted by some psychology students of a university on Katipunan Avenue as a research project to determine how information spreads fast and wide in urban areas. This fake news captured people's attention then, and many believed it until now.
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