Antique Rep. Loren Legarda. Because news is news," this was how Antique Rep. Loren Legarda answered a question in a virtual media roundtable when asked for her thoughts on fake news. "If you were a journalist of the old or the traditional school and then we [don't] call it fake news. According to Legarda, to disinform is to consciously deceive people with wrong content while to misinform is to unknowingly share wrong information. To combat the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation in the digital age, Legarda sees the foundations of old-school journalism as a possible solution.

Source: Manila Times December 25, 2021 00:44 UTC