YouTube had been overtaking Facebook as a social media app of choice, according to a COMELEC spokesperson.
COMELEC — A spokesperson for the Commission on Elections said that YouTube was “full of fake news” as it had been overtaking Facebook as a social media app of choice.
COMELEC Spokesperson James Jimenez said that the Google video site had been overtaking Facebook as a social media app of choice “and the reason for that is that YouTube is full of fake news”.
Jimenez said that YouTube was where a lot of people got the content that they amplified on other social media platforms.
As regards the poll body’s guidelines on the use of social media, Jimenez said that they would include a prohibition on “micro targeting”.
He said that one of the things in their social media guidelines was the prohibition of political candidates from using “micro targeting” as a means of deciding where to send their posts how to promote or boost their post and so they’re closely looking at it.
However, Jimenez asked the public not to expect too much from the guidelines on the use of social media because it lacked a legal framework.
“The COMELEC is like really blazing a trail in this respect and the problem with that is when your the first one through the wall you are the one ending up with a bloody face and that is exactly the kind of situation the COMELEC is finding itself in,” said Jimenez.
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Meanwhile, the poll body was expected to hold political candidates accountable if they used “deep fakes” in their respective campaigns ahead of the 2022 elections.
Jimenez said in a webinar that the “integrity pledge” signed by political candidates when they filed their certificates of candidacy (COC) last October included a section on “deep fakes”.
“Deep fakes” were videos that have been “doctored” or “spliced” in order to make it appear that a particular personality was saying or doing something that he or she didn’t actually say or do.
“We have an integrity pledge and there is a section that deals specifically with cyber hygiene as well as rejection of the use of misinformation including the use of deep fakes,” said Jimenez.
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