DICT to deploy online watchdogs to monitor social media platforms

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00:00DICT head Honcho Ivan Jan Uy knows all too well how the agents of misinformation, troll

00:06farms, paid hacks, and purveyors of fake news will flood social media with a deluge of fake

00:12news posts, conspiracy theories, outrageous memes, absurd memes, and deepfakes as the

00:19midterm polls loom.

00:21But the DICT has been prepping for this event by recruiting and assembling teams of cyber

00:26watchdogs to thwart these bad actors as our Noel Talacay reports.

00:45This is the call of Secretary Ivan Jan Uy of the Department of Information and Communication

00:52DICT to Filipinos as the 2025 midterm election fast approaches wherein there are bad actors

00:59will use this opportunity to spread misinformation, disinformation, fake news, and deepfakes that

01:07might affect negatively or positively certain politicians.

01:35The agency has a proactive response with it.

01:37The secretary during the Kapihan sa Manila Bay says they are now deploying volunteers

01:44to serve as watchdog online or on social media platforms against these bad actors who will

01:50try to ruin the credibility of the elections.

02:05One of the agency's volunteer groups is Camwatch Filipinas.

02:09According to its co-founder Josel D. Guzman, they are looking right now for hacked social

02:14media accounts and trolls from past elections because this can be used not only for buying

02:21votes but in scamming the public.

02:44In order to be organized and be properly addressed, D. Guzman also says they have scam bank where

02:50volunteers can submit reports on social media accounts with malicious content.

03:07He also says in the coming days, Scamwatch Filipinas will be needing more volunteers

03:12to serve as election watchdogs online.

03:30The Department of Information and Communication Technology Secretary Uy emphasizes his agency

03:37has been coordinating with all social media platforms to take down accounts that propagate

03:43misinformation, disinformation, fake news, and deepfake images or soundbites.

03:48Noel Palacay from the National TV Network for New and Better Philippines.

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