BBM ENGAGES IN ‘DEEP FAKE’ TO WIN IN 2022

 By Ba Ipe

IT is no coincidence that 95% of the photographs, news and feature articles, and other texts that were checked and declared “fake” in big bold letters by fact check agencies have come from the BBM camp. It could be said it is the policy of the BBM camp to engage in lies, deception and what could be described as “deep fake.” No buts and if about it.

BBM is an underachiever. He has no sterling record to show off. He is lazy and, except for the public offices he occupied, he did not work in his entire life. Being the mediocre son of the infamous dictator bearing the same name, this underperformer wants to be the next president when the truth is he is unqualified.

Meanwhile, modern digital technology has improved dramatically, i.e. by leaps and bounds. Where before pictures don’t lie, now, they lie instead. They can be altered and manipulated to deceive people. Smartphones and other modern gadgets have modern applications that allow every conceivable fakery. The age of deception and big lies has dawned on us.

This is the era of the so-called “deep fake.”

Before the onset of digital technology, news and information usually come at specific hours of the day. Now, they come on the 24/7 cycle. The Information Revolution is churning fast, giving all kinds of information at any time of the day. There is hardly time for respite to examine closely the information that come before us. There is no time for reflection.

 We are all victims of the Information Revolution and its negative effects.

The BBM camp takes advantage of this negative side of the Information Revolution. Because it has wherewithal, largely stolen from the Filipino people, to spend and finance these insidious underground operations, it has come to engage in the deep fake mainly to deodorize the stinking  image of the late strongman and improve the his underachieving son’s.

His camp has photoshopped old and new pictures to present they have popular support. Public gatherings that have thin crowds have been altered to show big crowds instead. In instances, where the lazy BBM could not attend and was not around, they have changes to show BBM materializing from nowhere. What they know is to engage in despicable big-time deception of the most wicked kind. The BBM camp has no moral compunction to deceive and mislead the Filipino people. There is no nothing new about their operations.

Lately, the BBM camp has been floating the so–called "Tallano gold," which the Marcoses intend to give to the Filipino people. The reason the Marcoses are filthy rich is because they allegedly "found" the Tallano gold. This is fraud and fiction combined because the actual reason is that they stole between $5 billion to $10 billion in people’s money.

There is no end to the strings of deep fakes they have resorted and engaged. The BBM camp is a factory of fake news and everything fake. There is absolutely no basis to support his presidential bid unless we’re masochists and engaged in national and collective suicide.