Presentations

Atty. Edre Olalia (NUPL), Fides Lim (Kapatid), Fr. Benjamin Alforque, Jonathan de Santos (NUJP), and TWSC’s Joel Ariate discusses the human rights situation and prospects under the newly-seated Marcos administration. Organized by Move.PH, Karapatan, and the Ecumenical Voice for Peace and Human Rights in the Philippines, the webinar was streamed days ahead of the first Tate of the Nation Address of Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Reyes discussed online pro-Marcos historical distortion from around the early 2000s to Facebook at the Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission’s online conference “The Martial Law Dialogues – Perceptions and Engagement with Post-EDSA Generations” held on February 24, 2022. In his talk, he attempted to answer these two questions:

  • What are the antecedents of online pro-Marcos disinformation/ online pro-Marcos disinformation before the widespread use of social media in the Philippines?
  • Can we blame social media primarily for the current proliferation of disinformation in favor of the Marcoses?

Joel F. Ariate Jr. and Miguel Paolo Reyes presented the findings of the Marcos Regime Research group in the online conference “Where’s the Lie: Research Findings on Disinformation,” held online on December 9. 2020. The 3rd National Conference on Democracy and Disinformation was held virtually on February 22, 24, and 26 (the presentation was broadcast on February 24).

Ariate and Reyes presented the findings of the UP Third World Studies Center’s Marcos Regime Research project The “Marcos Truths”: A Genealogy of Historical Distortions in the Rappler program On the Campaign Trail with John Nery: The Mechanics of pro-Marcos Disinfo. Ariate and Reyes are joined by communications professor Cheryll Ruth Soriano, who is also a part of the Consortium for Democracy and Disinformation. Streamed on December 15, 2021, Nery asked: How do Marcos disinformation campaigns work? And how will they impact the 2022 elections?

Ed Lingao, Atty. Chel Diokno, Director Joel Lamangan, Kiri Dalena, and TWSC’s Miguel Paolo Reyes talks about the continuing violence, plunder, and divisiveness in Philippine politics in the online conference “Reality Check: Martial Law, Never again” streamed on September 19, 2020. The event was organized by Daang Dokyu in cooperation with Concerned Artists of the Philippines and Directos’ Guild of the Philippines.