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[Be The Good] In Dumaguete, we launch #CorruptionWatch

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<p>It’s a drizzly day here in Dumaguete City’s Silliman University. But the weather has not dampened the Rappler team’s excitement about launching this year’s roadshow in this lovely coastal city.</p>

<p>Together with investigative editor and training head Chay Hofileña, civic engagement head Sam Bagayas, reporter Patrick Cruz, researcher Shay Du, and civic engagement specialist Joan Alindogan, we begin our first full day of workshops on equipping citizens with the tools to investigate corruption.</p>

<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img alt="" class="wp-image-3142411" height="750" src="https://www.rappler.com/tachyon/2026/02/unnamed.jpg" width="1000" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">THE PAPER TRAIL. Rappler reporter Patrick Cruz shows Dumaguete City Movers how to get information from contracts and Securities and Exchange Commission documents that could point to conflict of interest. Photo by Pia Ranada/Rappler</figcaption></figure>

<p>We’ve entitled<a href="https://www.rappler.com/moveph/anti-corruption-roadshow-dumaguete-city-february-2026/"> this year’s roadshow #CorruptionWatch</a>, with the goal of training Movers, or civic engagement volunteers, to spot, verify, and report abuse of power. In these workshops, conducted over three days, they will learn how to do research, analyze documents, interview sources, and produce compelling videos about governance and accountability.</p>

<p>To bolster these efforts, we’ve rena

[Be The Good] We’re launching a good governance campaign for Gen Z on Saturday

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<p>This Saturday, January 24, Linya-Linya and Rappler will<a href="https://www.rappler.com/bulletin-board/events/mabuti-pa-linya-linya-campaign-launch-collaboration-2026/"> launch a good governance campaign for Gen Z and millennials</a>.</p>

<p>Before I’m accused of age-ism, I want to clarify that everyone is invited to the launch and to join the campaign!</p>

<p>But there’s a reason why we’re paying particular attention to young Filipinos. Data from the Commission on Elections shows that Gen Z and millennials make up over 60% of our voting population, as of 2025. Filipinos aged 18 to 45 are the biggest voting bloc in terms of age in this country. </p>

<p>This is the same age group that grew up with social media and are so-called “digital natives.” The same group that have, at most, infant memories of the Marcos dictatorship and the 1986 EDSA Revolution. The same group that is confronted by disinformation at an almost unfathomable scale, internet enshittification, and generative AI.</p>

<p>Linya-Linya and Rappler believe that the more involved Gen Z and millennials are with the movement for good governance, the better off our country will be.</p>

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<p>The median age of Rappler staff is a millennial age. <a href="

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[Be The Good] Community’s Choice for Rappler’s most impactful work in 2025

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[Be The Good] An internet built for journalism

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<p>There’s a quiet revolution taking place in different parts of the world. Newsrooms that used to see each other as mortal enemies are coming together <em>a la</em> Avengers.</p>

<p>In France, 80 French news outlets banded together to create a platform, <a href="https://portail.basta.media/">Independent Media Portal</a>, that aggregates their stories into one space. In Canada, various newsrooms created <a href="https://www.unrigged.ca/">Unrigged</a>, which also aggregates their content into one digital space.</p>

<p>In the Philippines, the Philippine Press Institute (PPI), came up with something similar, the<a href="https://ppinewscommons.net/"> PPI News Commons</a>, which centralizes the articles of its member newsrooms into one page.</p>

<p>If I called this a revolution, what is it rising up against?</p>

<p>The answer: social media feeds that make it harder and harder to find journalism.</p>

<p>These social media feeds that have been the top source of news and information for 90% of internet-using Filipinos have changed the way we are accessing journalism. </p>

<p>Because of this served-to-you approach, most of us go on Facebook and wait for news to come to us. That worked for a while: news articles would reliably appear on our feeds. It was behavior similar to turning on the radio, or switching to a TV news program.</p>

<p>But now, Meta’s algorithms and Google’s AI Overviews, make it less likely we’ll read or find journalism if we just wait for it to

[Be The Good] Rappler at Cartagena for UNESCO media and information literacy summit

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<p>I just came from a quick but thrilling trip to the historic city of Cartagena de Indias in Colombia to represent Rappler at UNESCO’s media and information literacy conference.</p>

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<p>There, in the city that inspired one of my favorite authors, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, teachers, fact-checkers, policymakers, tech companies, and journalists from around the world gathered to move media and information literacy forward. </p>

<p>Not a lot of people may know that, aside from being a master of magical realism, Marquez was also a journalist – a fitting paragon for a conference aiming to help people tell fact from fiction.</p>

<p>The two-day conference, from October 23 to 24, centered on generative artificial intelligence as it relates to media and information literacy.</p>

<p>But before tackling this new, disruptive tech, we all found ourselves asking a fundamental question: what is media and information literacy, also known as MIL?</p>

<p>UNESCO defines it as a set of skills to protect against harms caused by disinformation, hate speech, innovations like AI, and the decline of trust in media. These skills include critical-thinking, fact-checking, an ability to gauge the quality of information sources, and an understanding of how information is produced – wheth

[Be The Good] What’s your relationship with the news?

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<p>Hello, from Pangasinan!</p>

<p>A team of Rapplers is Lingayen to hold workshops and a public forum on civic empowerment and good governance. Pangasinan is the last stop of our<em><a href="https://api-esp-ap.piano.io/-c/130/38773/538924/13657718/263307/8f65c8626708fb0fd60d1ead31b602aa/-1/-1?attrs=0&order=0" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"> #AmbagNatin: Engage For Change</a></em> 2025 roadshow, what a ride it’s been!</p>

<p>We’re training 12 Pangasinan youths to be Movers, or Rappler civic engagement volunteers. By the end of the week, we hope we have equipped them with basic skills in community journalism and engagement — how to tell stories in ways that move people to action to address<a href="https://api-esp-ap.piano.io/-c/130/38773/538924/13657718/263307/d9fd1953797677cdb69dd935850a15d9/-1/-1?attrs=0&order=1" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"> pressing problems in their locality</a>, and beyond.</p>

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<p>I’ll have more to report after this week, but this first day in Pangasinan and meeting our new Movers for the first time has got me asking this question: What’s our relationship with the news? Is it still healthy?</p>

<p>At our digital hygiene workshop earlier today, the Movers all had to analyze their social media habits.

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