{"id":152345,"date":"2018-02-12T03:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T08:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=152345"},"modified":"2018-02-12T03:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T08:01:17","slug":"bam-worried-as-study-names-ph-3rd-most-ignorant-nation-on-key-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/12\/bam-worried-as-study-names-ph-3rd-most-ignorant-nation-on-key-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam worried as study names PH 3rd most ignorant nation on key issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_152452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152452\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27654830_1156916944445343_524094138883700562_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-152452\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27654830_1156916944445343_524094138883700562_n.jpg\" alt=\"In a statement, Aquino stressed the need to toughen the fight against fake news and ramp up efforts to provide quality education to keep Filipinos, especially the youth, fully aware of the issues swarming the country. (Photo:  Bam Aquino\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27654830_1156916944445343_524094138883700562_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27654830_1156916944445343_524094138883700562_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27654830_1156916944445343_524094138883700562_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a statement, Aquino stressed the need to toughen the fight against fake news and ramp up efforts to provide quality education to keep Filipinos, especially the youth, fully aware of the issues swarming the country. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BenignoBamAquino\/photos\/a.156116944525353.34960.148362681967446\/1156916944445343\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo:<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BenignoBamAquino\/photos\/a.156116944525353.34960.148362681967446\/1156916944445343\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Bam Aquino\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014\u00a0Senator Bam Aquino on Sunday expressed concern over a recent survey ranking the Philippines as third among countries that are \u201cmost ignorant\u201d on the key issues hounding the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Aquino stressed the need to toughen the fight against fake news and ramp up efforts to provide quality education to keep Filipinos, especially the youth, fully aware of the issues swarming the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, we need to strengthen quality education and launch a solid attack on disinformation and fake news,\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of Filipinos who get confused with data and who find it hard to discern the truth. This is even more distressing when we consider how Filipinos resort to threats and hate speech online instead of reasonably discussing opposing views,\u201d he added in mix Filipino and English.<\/p>\n<p>In a study conducted by news website Indy100, Filipinos ranked third among those most confident despite giving inaccurate answers. South Africa topped the survey while Brazil came in the second place.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the Philippines placed 16<sup>th<\/sup> in the survey participated in by 38 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino said that the survey should serve as a lesson for all Filipinos to be humble, urging them to check facts and listen to one another instead of turning hostile.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also conducted an inquiry into the responsible use of social media in schools to fight spread of fake news and false information, calling on the different stakeholders, led by the Department of Education (DepEd) to unite in battling trolling and spread of misinformation on social media.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) to discuss the problem of online disinformation and fake news sites during Senate hearing on the proliferation of fake news.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Senator Grace\u00a0Poe underlined that media and information literacy is the solution to combat the spread of fake news and false information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014\u00a0Senator Bam Aquino on Sunday expressed concern over a recent survey ranking the Philippines as third among countries &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":152452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[21055,12568,46417,343,20852,23964,12146,46416],"class_list":["post-152345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-department-of-education-deped","tag-fake-news","tag-key-issues","tag-philippines","tag-presidential-communications-operations-office-pcoo","tag-senator-bam-aquino","tag-senator-grace-poe","tag-most-ignorant","mauthors-carlo-jacob-molina","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152345","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=152345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}