Red flag for 2022: Political lies go unchecked on YouTube showbiz channels

A number of Youtube channels that have been previously fact-checked by Rappler label themselves as channels specifically for celebrity or trending news updates when, in fact, they mostly publish political content.

The channel did start out with videos on celebrity news, but over time its videos took a turn towards the political. Not only did Showbiz Fanaticz start posting hyperpartisan “news” updates, it also started posting blatant disinformation. Comparatively, active users of Facebook, the previous favorite, only comprised 96.8% of active internet users for the same quarter.worldwide, according to the Digital 2021 report released by advertising firms We Are Social and Hootsuite in January.

In response to a follow-up email in September, she said there are parallels between the entertainment news tradition of creating “” for promotion purposes and disinformation campaigns. Both are motivated by either profit or ideology or partisanship. Of these channels, the biggest is Showbiz Fanaticz, having posted 2,122 videos from January 4, 2020, to June 3, 2021. Showbiz Fanaticz also produced the most videos under the tags of critics and perceived enemies of the government, celebrities, national politics and political figures, local politics and political figures, international relations, and overseas Filipino workers .

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