Christa Escudero

Educational content creator LANS was subjected to disinformation and attacks after her feature on the West Philippine Sea (WPS) on July 18. A social media scan by data forensics group The Nerve found Facebook posts that mention LANS spiking on the days immediately following the content creator’s posts featuring Pag-asa Island in mid-July.

Online networks of the Duterte base were quick to ride on the public rage over Ateneo de Manila University’s (ADMU) delayed reactions and piecemeal information in the aftermath of the deaths of its basketball players Rene Baterbonia and Divine Adili. Public Facebook posts about the deaths surfaced various pro-Duterte pages calling out Ateneo for failing the Mindanaoan Baterbonia, according to an analysis of data forensics group The Nerve.