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Some lawmakers have called on the Department of the Interior and Local Government to investigate sister city agreements between Philippine and Chinese local governments, citing national security concerns.

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AI-generated disinformation will soon outpace our ability to detect it. What happens when falsehoods look more convincing than the truth?

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Philstar.com analyzed videos of pro-Duterte vloggers and found recurring defeatist, pro-China narratives on the West Philippine Sea.

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Most of these pages have no apparent connection but shared the same exact post and image within a similar time frame. 

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Documents circulating online that purport to expose a $100 billion money laundering scheme involving the Marcos family’s supposed 350 metric tons of gold are riddled with red flags.

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Fabricated images, which appeared to mimic news articles from reputable outlets like Philstar.com, were shared on Facebook, falsely alleging the group’s disqualification and that votes for them would be invalid.

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Former President Rodrigo Duterte's arrest has unleashed a flood of false information that mainly portrays him as a victim, with a fact-checking coalition reporting that spurious claims about his detention have exceeded that of Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment.

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Hours before former President Rodrigo Duterte's family and lawyers publicly claimed his arrest a "kidnapping," around 200 seemingly unconnected Facebook accounts and pages had already posted the same exact text that accused law enforcers of abducting Duterte to the International Criminal Court.  

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Philstar.com analyzed videos of pro-Duterte vloggers and found recurring defeatist, pro-China narratives on the West Philippine Sea.

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Documents circulating online that purport to expose a $100 billion money laundering scheme involving the Marcos family’s supposed 350 metric tons of gold are riddled with red flags.

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Former President Rodrigo Duterte's arrest has unleashed a flood of false information that mainly portrays him as a victim, with a fact-checking coalition reporting that spurious claims about his detention have exceeded that of Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment.

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Hours before former President Rodrigo Duterte's family and lawyers publicly claimed his arrest a "kidnapping," around 200 seemingly unconnected Facebook accounts and pages had already posted the same exact text that accused law enforcers of abducting Duterte to the International Criminal Court.  

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