OPINION | Regulating fake news on social media platforms By Czarina Cher M. Cuerpo READ:
According to We are Social’s 2021 Digital Report, the Philippines, known as the “social media capital of the world,” ranked as the country with the highest social media daily usage with an average of four hours and 15 minutes a day. In the same report, data revealed that about 80.7% of the Philippine population, or around 89 million out of 110.3 million Filipinos, are active social media users.
Electoral candidates for the upcoming May 2022 elections shifted to online campaigns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, these political figures became one of the main targets for peddlers of fake news on social media platforms. The freedom to post any content given to social media users, paired with the lack of accountability from social media platforms enabled the proliferation of fake news that aim to either boost the qualifications or discredit the reputation of a candidate.
Prosecution of cyber libel against peddlers of fake news is a possible recourse of victims of false and/or defamatory articles. Cyber libel is the publication through the use of a computer system or other similar means, of a defamatory statement against an identifiable natural or juridical person, or one who is dead, which tends to cause dishonor, discredit, contempt, or blacken the memory of the person defamed .
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