{"id":131998,"date":"2017-11-17T04:54:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T09:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=131998"},"modified":"2017-11-17T04:54:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T09:54:13","slug":"government-does-not-employ-a-keyboard-army-andanar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/17\/government-does-not-employ-a-keyboard-army-andanar\/","title":{"rendered":"Government does not employ a &#8216;keyboard army&#8217; \u2014 Andanar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110952\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PCOO-Sec-Andanar01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110952\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PCOO-Sec-Andanar01.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: &quot;What President Duterte has are millions of supporters, 16 million of which turned up at polling precincts throughout the country,&quot; Andanar said. (PNA PHOTO)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PCOO-Sec-Andanar01.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/PCOO-Sec-Andanar01-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: &#8220;What President Duterte has are millions of supporters, 16 million of which turned up at polling precincts throughout the country,&#8221; Andanar said. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.pna.gov.ph\/category-list\/PNA%20Reporters%20Photos\/JBP\/PCOO%20Sec%20Andanar01.jpg\">(PNA PHOTO)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar on Friday has denied the report of the United States-based human rights watchdog Freedom House that the Philippine government hired a \u201ckeyboard army\u201d to boost President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s public support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Presidential Communications Operations Office does not employ a &#8216;keyboard army,&#8221; said Andanar on Friday, November 17, in a statement sent to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>In a report posted by Freedom House, it was claimed that the hired keyboard armies could earn $10 (P500) up to $60 (P3,000) daily to spread words of support for the administration and also to attack its critics.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that the keyboard armies are operating fake social media accounts during May 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the Philippines, news reports citing former members of a \u201ckeyboard army\u201d said they could earn $10 per day operating fake social media accounts that supported Rodrigo Duterte or attacked his detractors in the run-up to his May 2016 election as president; many have remained active under his administration, amplifying the impression of widespread support for his brutal crackdown on the drug trade,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Andanar also questioned how Freedom House created its report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith that said, we\u2019re quite interested in how Freedom House created its report and would appreciate it if they can also share how they gathered their data,\u2019 Andanar said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What President Duterte has are millions of supporters, 16 million of which turned up at polling precincts throughout the country,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, automated accounts or bots, as well as volunteers were used to spread political content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar on Friday has denied the report of the United States-based human rights watchdog Freedom House &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":110952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[33783,33782,33784],"class_list":["post-131998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-keyboard-army","tag-presidential-communications-secretary-martin-andanar","tag-united-states-based-human-rights-watchdog-freedom-house","mauthors-michealina-vallarta-david","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}