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Detoxing from Big Corporate Social Media and a return to REAL “social networking”

December 21, 2018 benign0 3 Comments

As many of our closest followers know by now, we had recently launched GRPsupport.com (currently in BETA). It’s the equivalent of a home-cooked social networking meal with all-natural ingredients sourced from the Net’s most trusted organic digital farms and none of the artificial toxicity of the mass-produced “services” on offer in Big Corporate Social Media…

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Maria Ressa’s obsession with Facebook is like that of a jilted lover over her ex

October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 benign0 21 Comments

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa just can’t stop once she gets started about Facebook. Indeed, she got started on Facebook way back when she threw a massive embrace around the gargantuan social media platform in the early days when she pitched her organisation as a “social news network”. Like many media organisations at the time, Rappler…

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Article on self-important Rappler anti-fake-news “soldiers” published by @NYTimesWorld

October 10, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

You gotta hand it to the circlejerk relationship Rappler manages to cling on to with the New York Times. This recent article, Soldiers in Facebook’s War on Fake News Are Feeling Overrun makes like CEO Maria Ressa’s Rapplerettes are on a mission from God. The tone of the piece goes beyond drama into the realm…

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Filipinos have Mocha Uson and the Yellowtards have Jover Laurio. Who’s gonna win?

October 4, 2018 benign0 12 Comments

Now that former Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson is a private citizen, she can start blogging. Like a real blogger. Just like that other one who’s been styled by no less than Rappler and its community of Jesuit- and nun-educated cheerleaders as the preeminent blogger of the Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the…

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Ellen Tordesillas of Vera Files bares lack of guiding definition for “fake news” to “fact check” Facebook!

April 18, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

Some shocking revelations came to light during a televised discussion about the recently-implemented “partnering” of social media giant Facebook with Rappler and Vera Files. Under this “partnership” Rappler and Vera Files will be “fact checking” what Filipinos share over Facebook which utterly dominates social media activity in the Philippines thanks to exclusive “free data” (unmetered…

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Facebook users should be left to decide what is fake and what is authentic

April 17, 2018 benign0 14 Comments

When Rappler CEO Maria Ressa announced what was supposed to be a momentous “partnering” of her “social news network” and Vera Files with social media giant Facebook to “fact check” Filipinos’ social media activities, she was probably expecting to be lauded as a “hero” in the world’s “fight” against disinformation. Instead, the opposite has happened….

Society, Tech Talk

Rappler “fact checking” partnership with Facebook is turning into a FIASCO

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

No matter what they do, the Opposition led by the Liberal Party cannot wash the yellow stain off their Yellowtard brand. Despite many rallies organised and many “reminders” to “wear white” in those rallies, the Opposition will, in the eyes of the majority of Filipinos, remain as Yellow as day-old piss. Branding, after all, is…

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Facebook could now be effectively operating as a FOREIGN media operation in the Philippines!

April 14, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

Now that Facebook is in bed with Rappler and Vera Files an important question needs to be raised: Is Facebook now acting like a media operation in the Philippines? A foreign one? It is an important question to mull over because under Philippine law, media organisations are barred from being invested in by foreign entities….

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