This photo taken on May 11, 2018 shows journalist Rowena Paraan speaking during a lecture about fake news in Philippine Army Camp Jaime Bitong in Baler, Aurora, north of Manila. Re-launched in 2016 by the Philippines' top TV network ABS-CBN in response to the spike in malicious news that accompanied the rise of President Rodrigo Duterte, the training aims to be a bulwark against falsehood. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS / TO GO WITH: Philippines-internet-media-social, FOCUS by Cecil MORELLA
BALER, Philippines: A room full of Filipino police and soldiers stares intently at headlines projected on a screen, the latest students of a media bootcamp aimed at fighting their nation’s flood of fake news.
Scores of people ranging from girl scouts to government workers have already received the same innovative instruction in the Philippines, ranked the world’s top user of social media.
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