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    The document discusses the concepts of post-truth and alternative facts. It defines post-truth as circumstances where appeals to emotion are more influential than objective facts in shaping public opinion. Alternative facts are described as the opposite of reality or truth, essentially being falsehoods or untruths. The document also outlines some basic journalistic principles and practices, including fair and balanced reporting through attribution and fact-checking, editorial independence, and serving all groups through plurality and diversity.

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    The document discusses the concepts of post-truth and alternative facts. It defines post-truth as circumstances where appeals to emotion are more influential than objective facts in shaping public opinion. Alternative facts are described as the opposite of reality or truth, essentially being falsehoods or untruths. The document also outlines some basic journalistic principles and practices, including fair and balanced reporting through attribution and fact-checking, editorial independence, and serving all groups through plurality and diversity.

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    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.

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