🇵🇭 Bogus medical posts are flooding social media platforms where Filipinos rank among the world's heaviest users. Many products are promoted in videos that have been doctored to make it look like real medical professionals are endorsing them.
Philippine doctors worried about misinformation during the pandemic began posting educational videos online, but the move backfired as promoters of spurious treatments inserted the clips into their own postsPhilippine vlogger Rosanel Demasudlay holds a heart-shaped"virginity soap" bar in front of the camera and assures her hundreds of YouTube followers it can be safely used to"tighten" their vaginas.
They can circulate for weeks or even months without detection as Facebook struggles to keep up with the torrent of misinformation flooding its platform. A few months later, Demasudlay admitted in another video that the soap had left her"itchy to the point of bleeding" -- but she kept promoting it.Philippine doctors worried about the explosion of medical misinformation during the pandemic began posting videos providing free information about common health conditions.
Filipinos were particularly vulnerable to false or misleading health claims due to a shortage of doctors in the country and their heavy internet usage, said Eleanor Castillo, a public health expert at the University of the Philippines.
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