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Rappler turns Facebook into a mainstream news outlet by becoming its “fact checker”

April 13, 2018 benign0 44 Comments

Nowadays, very few people will argue against the reality that mainstream news media organisations are suffering a double-edged crisis of relevance and public trust. Newspapers, conventional broadcast news, and, now, even the websites of news organisations are no longer the go-to media outlets of the average information consumer. And with the utter domination of users’…

Media

A post-Facebook world

April 13, 2018 benign0 3 Comments

Like Bill Gates back in the turn of the century, the world’s biggest man of the hour, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is having his day on the grill. And like Gates back then, how he spends his time under the microscopes of monopoly busters, privacy advocates, and even conspiracy theorists will be a test of…

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Big Sisters are Watching: Rappler and Vera Files set to become Facebook’s INFORMATION POLICE!

April 12, 2018 benign0 11 Comments

A “report” published on Rappler today announced that the world’s largest social media corporation, Facebook, has enlisted the services of Rappler and Vera Files to provide “fact checking” services in the Philippines. According to the “fact checking process” to be followed under this arrangement, Rappler and Vera Files will be reviewing “flagged” stories and will,…

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Facebook hears the secrets that you keep when you’re talking in your sleep

March 21, 2018 benign0 13 Comments

Facebook is currently in a world of trouble after news about how a chunk of data harvested off it was used by an analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, to generate insights allegedly used to help current United States President Donald Trump win the elections in 2016. While many observers wonder whether this attention is due to…

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Only an intellectual revolution will reduce the spread of disinformation in the Philippines #FightDisinfo

February 13, 2018 benign0 8 Comments

One thing that can be noted from the various camps in the Philippines’ sad “political debate” is that the starting point of assertions is always one’s political or personal loyalties. As such, the goal of most participants in this “debate” is to re-enforce beliefs rather than engage in an intellectually-honest search for the truth. Facebook…

Culture, Media

Does Maria Ressa want Facebook banned in the Philippines?

January 24, 2018January 31, 2018 benign0 6 Comments

Embattled Rappler CEO Maria Ressa seems to think it should be. According to Ressa, content allowed by Facebook to be shared on its site “threatens the country’s democracy.” Ressa adds… “We’re seeing our democracy eroding in front of our eyes and Facebook is the platform where it’s happening.” Ressa’s concern lies in planned changes to…

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@Facebook’s troubles started when it implemented its newsfeed algorithm to decide what we “wanted”

January 15, 2018 benign0 3 Comments

Following the screeching fits of people like Rappler CEO Maria Ressa who put the blame on the so-called modern-day “scourge” of “fake news” squarely on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has struck back. Zuck has reportedly axed news media’s access to our prized Facebook newsfeeds and pulled the revenue rug from under the feet of news media…

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Baffling logic: Maria Ressa blames Facebook for the Philippines’ political dysfunction

January 6, 2018 benign0 8 Comments

There is something disturbingly familiar about the way Maria Ressa, CEO of “social news network” Rappler, blames social media giant Facebook for her troubles and even that of the Philippines’. In a recent tweet, Ressa cites the news report, Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘fixing’ Facebook a personal goal for 2018 (which she republished on Rappler) and…

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