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The webinar aimed to help students grow their media literacy amid the growing prevalence of the misnomered phenomenon of "fake news" in the digital world, with examples from The Philippines' 2022 national elections used throughout the discussion. It also taught Monarchs how they can prevent false information from becoming viral.
Another milestone for the club, the webinar was the very first SECorganized online forum following a streak of schoolwide events that included the SDGs Awareness Month held last November and English Fortnight 2022 earlier this February. SEC had plans for hosting seminars about misinformation and disinformation set for April after the success of the latter, Club Moderator Sir Alvin Rey Caña told The Mover
The webinar began with a Kahoot icebreaker hosted by SEC members to test the students’ knowledge and ability to distinguish between real and madeup news information. Ms. Patty then took the virtual podium and started her talk by discussing the importance of recognizing false information due to the easy accessibility to data virtually. She also began by asking the audience, “How do we manage these pieces of information that we find so conveniently online . . . and how do these pieces of information also affect how we view society and [how] we make decisions and opinions about what's happening in society?”
Ms. Patty then presented the interactive browser game Bad News where students acted in the shoes of a tycoon who crafts and spreads phony news stories. After playing and gaining insights from the audience, she explained that it is important to acknowledge and understand what happens when false information is spread. “We can’t fight what we don’t know,” she said.
“I’d like to believe that truth isn’t cancelled. Though many institutions and people would like us to believe that truth is subjective, it isn’t . . . truth is truth for a reason,” Ms. Patty added.