Wise Information Consumption on Social Media

Information online is filtered, biased, and fabricated. Social media has also become the home of fake news and other forms of disinformation. Given these, how can we be responsible and smart netizens? Dapat Choosy discusses how social media is a tool for nation-building only when we are choosy enough with our actions online.

Ang ilang impormasyong nakikita natin sa internet ay sinala, may kinikilingan, at gawa-gawa. Naging tahanan narin ang social media ng disinformation. Paano tayo magiging responsable at matalino sa paggamit ng social media? Sa Dapat Choosy, tatalakayin natin kung paano maaaring maging kagamitan at instrumento para sa pagbuo ng bayan kung magiging mapili lamang tayo sa ating gawain online.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- Social media risks and dangers especially when used as a weapon rather than a tool for the social good
- How social media algorithms contribute to filtered & biased viewpoints online
- How online polarization, filter bubbles, and echo chambers reinforce biases and unhealthy discourse online
- The business behind fake news which causes the wide and fast spread of disinformation
- Simple ways to combat online disinformation and protect oneself from the risk of falling victim to it

INSTRUCTOR: Christine of Pinas Forward Academy

INTERVIEWER: Shai of Pinas Forward Academy

GUEST EXPERTS
- Prof. Jonathan Ong
- Prof. Jason Vincent Cabañes

Dapat Choosy is one of Pinas Forward’s Citizenship LIT-eracies – “LIT,” a term used by the youth to describe anything they find excellent or extraordinary. Pinas Forwarders put the LIT in GenLit by creating movers out of dreamers, concrete actions out of aspirations and stronger communities out of individuals.