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Emerging Threats: Post-Truth and Alternative Facts
Emerging Threats: Post-Truth and Alternative Facts
Currently, Emerging Threats generally share one or more of the following criteria: New
Very Critical Risk vulnerability, with available or easy-to-build exploits. New availability of
exploits for an existing high-risk vulnerability. Alert Logic telemetry showing active attacks
against customer base.
Washington-based think tank Freedom House classifies Philippine media as “partly free” and
the Internet in the Philippines as “free”. This puts us among countries where the Internet is not
censored but where falsehoods are deliberately spread online to undermine the public’s ability to
make informed decisions
POST THRUTH
The term has moved from being relatively new to being widely understood in the course of a
year – demonstrating its impact on the national and international consciousness. The concept
of post-truth has been simmering for the past decade, but Oxford shows the word spiking in
frequency this year in the context of the Brexit referendum in the UK and the presidential
election in the US, and becoming associated overwhelmingly with a particular noun, in the
phrase post-truth politics.
Oxford Dictionaries defines the term “post-truth” as “relating to or denoting circumstances in
which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and
personal belief.” In short, people can believe whatever they want to believe as long as they feel it
is right.
ALTERNATIVE FACTS
Alternative facts have been called many things: falsehoods, untruths, delusions. A fact is
something that actually exists—what we would call “reality” or “truth.” An alternative is one of
the choices in a set of given options; typically the options are opposites of each other. So to talk
about alternative facts is to talk about the opposite of reality (which is delusion), or the opposite
of truth (which is untruth).
BASIC JOURNALISTIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES
In the absence of government regulation, media organizations and media workers under the
principle of self-regulation. Below are the basic journalistic standards and principles.
1. FAIR AND BALANCED
This includes attribution and data triangulation. Neutrality does not mean that a
journalist is prohibited from having a personal opinion; rather, it means that th
methods used in reporting a news story must be objective.
2. EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE
This is defined as the concept that editors should have full authority over the content
of the publication. How completely this is practiced is the topic of many discussions
on media., but what is most important is that editorial independence is a long-
standing ideal that media organizations, practitioners, and owners strive for.
3. PLURALITY AND DIVERSITY
Media must serve all people regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, language, or culture.
Information must not allow only one or few groups to dominate over the rest.