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[Title] => Over 100 Chinese posts falsely claim military split with Marcos after Senate shooting
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[Title] => Dela Rosa, allies claim being 'under attack' after gunshots in Senate
[Summary] => Sen. Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa and his Senate allies posted near-simultaneous claims of being "under attack" on Facebook Wednesday night.
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[Title] => USAID collapse amplifies smear against Asia's rights groups
[Summary] => Aid freeze halts projects, cuts budgets, and weakens support systems for activists across the region.
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[Title] => How a campaign of ‘half-truths’ against USAID went global and reached Asia
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[Title] => Pro-Duterte pages use AI to recast drug war victims' kin as rich
[Summary] => More than two dozen pro-Duterte Facebook pages spread a doctored photo of drug war victims' kin carrying designer handbags with near-identical captions in just half a day — timed with the halfway mark of the International Criminal Court's confirmation of charges hearing for former president Rodrigo Duterte.
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[Title] => Philippines vulnerable to Russia's disinformation playbook used in Ukraine, study warns
[Summary] => While an overwhelming number of Filipinos reject Beijing's claims in the South China Sea, the study's main researcher says that has not stopped coordinated campaigns on China-aligned narratives from saturating the country's social media sphere.
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[Title] => Drug war critic priest targeted by coordinated smear campaign
[Summary] => Dozens of social media accounts deployed identical messages, suspicious comment patterns and AI-generated content to attack a Catholic priest known for championing drug war victims, an examination of posts across Facebook, TikTok and YouTube shows.
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[Title] => Fact check: Posts falsely claim Ombudsman Remulla is dead
[Summary] => The claims came two days after rumors circulated that Remulla had rushed to the hospital, which was debunked by Assistant Ombudsman Mico Clavano and Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla.
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[Title] => Inside the TikTok network boosting ‘confessions’ of flood control corruption
[Summary] => Until its removal in November, hundreds of TikTok accounts had spent months magnifying the visibility of AI-manipulated videos of lawmakers appearing to admit to corruption in flood control projects.
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[Title] => Copypasta army: Vietnam smeared by bots backing Duterte on X
[Summary] => A coordinated network of bot accounts has bombarded X with nearly 1,000 posts framing Vietnam as the main threat in the South China Sea — with many of the most active accounts also spreading pro-Duterte narratives, a Philstar.com investigation shows.
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[Title] => Over 100 Chinese posts falsely claim military split with Marcos after Senate shooting
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[Title] => Dela Rosa, allies claim being 'under attack' after gunshots in Senate
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[Title] => USAID collapse amplifies smear against Asia's rights groups
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[Title] => How a campaign of ‘half-truths’ against USAID went global and reached Asia
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[Title] => Pro-Duterte pages use AI to recast drug war victims' kin as rich
[Summary] => More than two dozen pro-Duterte Facebook pages spread a doctored photo of drug war victims' kin carrying designer handbags with near-identical captions in just half a day — timed with the halfway mark of the International Criminal Court's confirmation of charges hearing for former president Rodrigo Duterte.
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[Title] => Philippines vulnerable to Russia's disinformation playbook used in Ukraine, study warns
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[Title] => Drug war critic priest targeted by coordinated smear campaign
[Summary] => Dozens of social media accounts deployed identical messages, suspicious comment patterns and AI-generated content to attack a Catholic priest known for championing drug war victims, an examination of posts across Facebook, TikTok and YouTube shows.
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[Title] => Fact check: Posts falsely claim Ombudsman Remulla is dead
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[Title] => Inside the TikTok network boosting ‘confessions’ of flood control corruption
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