ONLINE INVASION: How China is swaying global public opinion — an analyst explains | Part 2

About this episode

Analyst Janina Santos discusses China's online influence and its impact on the Philippines and global public opinion.

In China's influence operations in the world, the Philippines ranked 7th in 2022, according to the study the China Index. In 2024, the Philippines went down the ranking to number 29. Analyst Janina Santos from Doublethink Lab, a think tank that studies Foreign Information Manipulation Interference or FIMI, unpacks China's online influence in the world and how this has pervaded our everyday lives affecting media, the academe, and domestic politics.   What does China's influence operations threaten? She explains to Howie Severino in this second installment to a special 3-part series on foreign actors and disinformation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Howie Severino

Guest: Janina Santos

Topics covered

• China influence operations
• disinformation
• media
• politics
• Philippines
• foreign information manipulation

Keywords

• China
• influence operations
• disinformation
• Philippines
• media
• politics
• FIMI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Doublethink Lab

Places: Philippines

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