Disinformation and deepfakes drive growing partisan divide in the Philippines

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A surge of doctored posts and artificial intelligence-generated deepfakes is sweeping Philippine social media, reinforcing partisan loyalties and exploiting the country’s fraught political divide amid an intensifying rift between the rival camps of President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr and former leader Rodrigo Duterte.The flood of online disinformation – turbocharged by new technology and recycled tactics – is thriving in a digital ecosystem where engagement often outweighs accuracy, analysts...