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  • Your Vote, Your Power: Robinsons Malls and Comelec Launch Nationwide BSK Registration Drive

    Your Vote, Your Power: Robinsons Malls and Comelec Launch Nationwide BSK Registration Drive

    Robinsons Land Corporation (RLC) continues its strong partnership with the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) as it rolls out voter registration for the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (BSK) Elections in 36 Robinsons Malls nationwide.

    Robinsons Malls BSKE registration

    From August 1 to 10, 2025, eligible new voters and existing ones who need to update their records can visit participating Robinsons Malls to register, transfer their registration, update their data, or reactivate their voter records.  This initiative is part of the malls’ pioneering Lingkod Pinoy Center which brings essential government services closer and more convenient for all its customers.

    “We are honored to be continuing our long-standing partnership with COMELEC, which began in 2014 when Robinsons Malls first hosted the offsite voter registration and biometrics in key areas of the country.  With these satellite registration centers in our malls, we hope to encourage broader voter participation, particularly among first-time and young registrants.” said Joel Lumanlan, Vice President for Operations and Marketing at Robinsons Malls. 

    Robinsons BSKE registration

    Robinsons Malls has been working closely with COMELEC over the years to provide safe, accessible and convenient locations for various election-related activities including the Register Anywhere Program (RAP) which was piloted in Robinsons Manila.  Registrants in this year’s registration program also get to experience the mall’s comfortable setting and the wide array of dining, retail, and family entertainment options.

    To learn more about the list of participating malls, registration requirements and other details, visit www.robinsonsmalls.com or follow Robinsons Malls on their official social media accounts. 

  • Robinsons Malls Pilots COMELEC Register Anywhere Program (RAP) & Opens More Voter Registration Areas

    Robinsons Land Corporation (RLC) through its Robinsons Malls Lingkod Pinoy Program strengthens its partnership with COMELEC as it kicks off the Register Anywhere Program (RAP) in Robinsons Galleria and Robinsons Manila starting December 17.   Robinsons Malls also opens more satellite voter registration venues in over 40 malls nationwide in preparation for the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections.  

    “We thank Robinsons Malls for the continued partnership and its unwavering support for COMELEC’s various initiatives.  Our goal is to ensure that more qualified Filipino voters get to register in a more convenient, comfortable, and safe venue and ultimately exercise their right to vote,” says COMELEC Chairman George Erwin M. Garcia.

    PR RMALLS COMELEC MOA SIGNING 1
    COMELEC Officials together with Robinsons Malls executives led the official signing of the Memorandum of Agreement with (L-R) Robinsons Malls Vice President for Operations, Business Development and Marketing Joel S. Lumanlan, RLC Executive Vice President Faraday D. Go, COMELEC Chairman George Erwin M. Garcia, COMELEC Director John Rex Laudiangco, and COMELEC Director Divina Blas-Perez.

    Robinsons Malls Vice President Joel S. Lumanlan shares, “The strong partnership with COMELEC dates back in 2014 when Robinsons Malls became the first and only mall in the country to host offsite voter registration and biometrics in key areas nationwide.” He adds, “We are grateful to COMELEC for choosing Robinsons Malls as its pilot venue for RAP and for holding voter registration in more malls, allowing us to better serve our customers nationwide.”

  • Here’s How Google & YouTube will Support the Philippine Elections

    As part of an ongoing commitment to connect voters to timely information and help protect the integrity of the Philippines elections, Google and YouTube announced a series of product features, partnerships, and programs. 

    Raising authoritative election information 

    As Election Day approaches, millions of people in the Philippines will be turning to YouTube to get the latest election news, and learn more about candidates and the voting process. To connect people to authoritative election-related information, YouTube provides a variety of Election Information Panels:

    ●      Candidate information panel: When YouTube viewers in the Philippines search for the names of President and Vice President candidates, a relevant candidate information panel will show at the top of their search results. This panel highlights information on the candidates, such as their political party and what office they’re running for. Information about candidates and parties is sourced from vetted, non-partisan, third-party sources.

    ●      How to vote information panel: To help people learn more about the voting process,an information panel surfaces on YouTube for all searches pertaining to “how to vote”. These panels will link to the Commissions on Elections’ (COMELEC) website featuring relevant materials, requirements, and the step-by-step of the voting process.

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    This is part of the existing portfolio of features that YouTube has rolled out in the country, aimed at raising authoritative information. These include Top News and Breaking News shelves for fast-moving, breaking news events; information panels that indicate funding sources from publishers that receive public or government funding; and information panels giving topical context that links to third party sources such as Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica, for videos on a number of well-established topics that can be prone to misinformation including the Holocaust, the Apollo moon landing, and Martial Law in the Philippines. 

    Speaking about the election information panels in the country, Emily Moxley, Vice President for Product Management at YouTube said, “Political news and events can be subject to misinformation, so the availability of authoritative information sources is crucial. Over the last few years, we’ve made deep investments to make YouTube a more reliable source for news, while also maintaining the openness of the platform. Our work is ongoing and we are committed to making YouTube a vibrant and safe community for a healthy political discourse as well as help protect the integrity of elections.”

    Removing election-related violative content & reducing harmful misinformation 

    YouTube’s Community Guidelines apply equally to everyone. From February 2021 to January 2022, the platform removed over 400,000 videos uploaded from the Philippines for Community Guidelines. YouTube elections misinformation policies prohibit content that: 

    ●      Misleads voters about the time, place, means, or eligibility requirements for voting, or false claims that could materially discourage voting

    ●      Advances false claims related to the technical eligibility requirements for current political candidates and sitting elected government officials to serve in office

    ●      Encourages others to interfere with democratic processes

    ●      Contains hacked information, the disclosure of which may interfere with democratic processes

    In addition, YouTube’s systems are designed to limit the spread of borderline content and harmful misinformation. Today, consumption of borderline content that comes from its recommendations is significantly below 1% globally.

    Supporting fact-checking initiatives

    The Google News Initiative (GNI) supports Meedan’s #FactsFirstPH, a coalition of more than 100 groups, including news organizations such as Rappler, civil society organizations, business groups, faith-based communities, research groups, and legal organizations to fight misinformation ahead of the Philippine elections. The GNI has also partnered with the University of the Philippines (UP) to launch a journalist training series and provided support to tsek.ph, a collaborative fact-checking project led by UP. 

    Investing in media literacy programs 

    Google has been investing in and supporting local media literacy programs to teach people how to identify trusted information. These include the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication’s “a day in the life” video series and training for news literacy, and CANVAS’ #YOUTHink magazine. Google.org also made a grant of $1.5 million to help the ASEAN Foundation expand media literacy education in ASEAN member communities including the Philippines. The ASEAN Foundation has also developed a digital literacy comic book available in Filipino.

    “Fighting misinformation is important to Google and it takes the whole of society working together to address it. We will continue to forge meaningful partnerships with the media and community groups to help people access the right information so they can make an informed vote in the upcoming elections,” said Irene Jay Liu, Google APAC News Lab Lead.

    “Part of COMELEC’s mission is to empower voters with accurate, relevant and timely information. We laud Google for taking the important steps in helping Filipinos access authoritative information that is essential for an informed electorate,” said James Jimenez, Commissions on Elections Director for Education and Information.