We beg to differ.
The buzz going around at the moment is that popular pro-Duterte social media personality Sass Rogando Sasot was banned from Facebook. Both critics and supporters of former President Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter, current Philippine Vice President Inday Sara Duterte, insist that this action taken by Facebook is “legit” after having been “checked”… Critics of…
Is the Ateneo de Manila Martial Law Museum so sacred as to be above any challenge to its legitimacy as an authority on what really happened over the period the late Ferdinand Marcos was president of the Philippines? Apparently so. In a tweet issued today, Manila Times columnist and former ambassador Bobi Tiglao, revealed that…
A “news story” authored by “reporter” Elijah Felice Rosales was put out by the Philippine Star yesterday on its front page practically screaming as “fact” that the Department of Finance hired a “fake Facebook account operator”. Then Rappler picked it up and amplified it on social media linking to its own version of said “news”…
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It’s come to my attention that one of our blog posts on our short-article site Get Real Pundit, “Senator Franklin Drilon momentarily asleep during CNN interview with Pinky Webb” was flagged as “false information” by the Facebook “fact check” Taliban. As shown in the above screenshot, the article was “checked by independent fact-checkers”, in this…
By now, most would be aware of the storm kicked up by Facebook’s botched attempt to face off with the Australian Government. As Google began efforts to find middle ground in light of Australia following through on legislation that will require social media platforms to pay for exhibiting news content on its users’ feeds, Facebook…
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People have gained a sudden appreciation of just how little in the way of alternatives there are on the Net following a disturbing collusion amongst the biggest Silicon Valley digital empires to silence US President Donald Trump and his followers. Nowhere has this problematic power been on display more than in the shutting down of…
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An unintended consequence of the “permanent suspension” of US President Donald Trump’s account on Twitter is how the awesome power of Big Corporate Social Media — that can so arbitrarily be wielded — has been laid bare for all to behold. It has now come to light that Twitter and the rest of the Silicon…
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That question needs to be answered within the context of whether or not people who continue to listen to outgoing United States president Donald Trump and even heed his public calls actually have a collective grievance that needs to be responded to. As it stands, it is likely that blocking Trump would be the equivalent…
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