The Philippines, like many other countries, is experiencing high temperatures that could surpass the global average last year, the hottest year since global records began in mid-1800s. El Niño is making things worse with the heat index reaching up to 47 degrees Celsius this week in some parts of the country and forecasted to get even hotter next month. Face-to-face classes in public schools have been suspended and work-from-home option has been revived for employees
Early this week, a fake video of President Marcos went viral on a popular streaming platform. It showed the president purportedly directing the country’s armed forces to counter China’s aggressive moves in the South China Sea. The short video was taken down just a few days after. Not having personally seen it, I can’t say how real it looked. So-called deepfakes are actually not so difficult to spot, at least for now—provided one is prepared to take time to scrutinize key features of people’s faces, like the forehead, the lips, the eyes, the eyebrows, cheeks, ears, the nose, etc. Often, the
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