{"id":255275,"date":"2020-05-19T00:06:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255275"},"modified":"2020-05-19T00:06:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T04:06:22","slug":"fact-checkers-should-flag-geotag-labelling-ph-as-china-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/19\/fact-checkers-should-flag-geotag-labelling-ph-as-china-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact-checkers should flag geotag labelling PH as China province"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque (PCOO PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Fact-verifiers should flag the geotag that identifies the Philippines as \u201cProvince of China\u201d and \u201cNorth Philippines, Province of China\u201d on social media apps Facebook and Instagram, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque called on Vera Files and Rappler to flag the geotag, stressing that it was their job as fact-checkers to prevent fake news from spreading on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cTinatawagan ko ng pansin po ng<\/em>\u00a0Vera Files\u00a0at<\/em>\u00a0Rappler,\u00a0sila po yung mga<\/em>\u00a0fact verifiers\u00a0ng<\/em>\u00a0Facebook.\u00a0Bakit naman po nakalusot ito<\/em>\u00a0(I am calling the attention of Vera Files and Rappler because they are the fact verifiers of Facebook. How did this slip past them)?\u201d he said in a virtual presser.<\/p>\n

Last year, Facebook announced its partnership with Vera Files and Rappler for a third-party fact-checking program to identify and reduce the reach of false news.<\/p>\n

Roque dismissed the geotag as fake news and refused to comment any further.<\/p>\n

\u201cSana po yung<\/em>\u00a0fake news\u00a0ay talagang i<\/em>-flag\u00a0nila dahil ito po<\/em>\u00a0clearly fake news.\u00a0Hindi na po dapat komentan<\/em>\u00a0(I hope they flag this fake news because it\u2019s clearly fake news. I shouldn\u2019t comment on it),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Senator Risa Hontiveros condemned the geotag, saying that it should be taken seriously even though it was believed to be a joke.<\/p>\n

Hontiveros said the sound of the phrase was as \u201cinfuriating\u201d as having Filipino fishermen bullied by Chinese in the West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n

She encouraged mass reporting to remove the geotag from the options for users as they try to pin the location of their posts on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cKahit biro pa itong<\/em>\u00a0\u2018Philippines Province of China\u2019\u00a0na<\/em>\u00a0geotag,\u00a0wag nating hayaang ma<\/em>-normalize\u00a0ito<\/em>\u00a0(Even if this Philippines Province of China geotag is just a joke, let\u2019s not allow this to be normalized). Let\u2019s mass report,\u201d she said in her Twitter account.<\/p>\n

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said he does not think Chinese nationals would take the geotag seriously but warned consequences against them if they do.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re giving it importance. Chinese are too smart to believe that crap; any of them tries coming over without a visa from me and he\u2019ll be detained and sent back where he came from at his own expense. At the rate you\u2019re all going, they will have 110 million check-ins,\u201d he said in his Twitter account.<\/p>\n

Users can easily create a new geotag through their social media apps by simply clicking \u201cadd location\u201d and typing a new location to add to the existing options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Fact-verifiers should flag the geotag that identifies the Philippines as \u201cProvince of China\u201d and \u201cNorth Philippines, Province of China\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":131481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255275","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=255275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255276,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255275\/revisions\/255276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}