{"id":141367,"date":"2017-12-22T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=141367"},"modified":"2017-12-22T08:39:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T13:39:40","slug":"palace-belies-human-rights-watchdog-report-on-keyboard-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/22\/palace-belies-human-rights-watchdog-report-on-keyboard-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace belies human rights watchdog report on &#8216;keyboard army&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaca\u00f1ang disproved the report of Freedom House, a US-based human rights watchdog, that claimed Philippine government is employing a \u201ckeyboard army\u201d to \u201camplify the impression of widespread support of the government\u2019s brutal crackdown on the drug trade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar said that there is no need for his office to do so because president Rodrigo Duterte already have millions of supporters.<\/p>\n<p>In a text message to reporters, Andanar said &#8220;The Presidential Communications Operations Office does not employ a &#8216;keyboard army.&#8217; What President Duterte has are millions of supporters, 16 million of which turned up at polling precincts throughout the land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Freedom House, the members of a \u201ckeyboard army\u201d are tasked to operate fake social media accounts to express support for Duterte or attack his critics during the May 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Meawhile, Andanar said they are interested to know how Freedom House created its report and gathered their data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 11\/\u00a018 \/17<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaca\u00f1ang disproved the report of Freedom House, a US-based human rights watchdog, that claimed Philippine government is employing a \u201ckeyboard &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141367","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=141367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}