The Control-Freak “Disente” have skewed the Concept of Freedom

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The Control-Freak “Disente” have skewed the Concept of Freedom

The recent brouhaha over Faceook hiring and implementing “fact-checkers” and also blocking mechanisms against suspected “fake news” has many people in an uproar. Such people believe that the basis of this “fact-checking” is not real fact-checking, but partisan views and whether certain ideas agree with or offend them. It would be subjective, not objective. Because…

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

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

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

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

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’…

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

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

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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Filipino Unity – Is there such a thing?

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Filipino Unity – Is there such a thing?

When was the last time Filipinos were united? Some will say it was as the Yellow horde back in the EDSA I People Power Revolution days that Filipinos truly got together to depose an “evil malevolent dictator”. But they weren’t, since those warm bodies that flooded EDSA’s lanes represented just a fraction of the total population…

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Culture, Society

Filipinos cannot aspire to be a people of INTEGRITY as long as Lourdes Sereno sits as “chief justice”

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Filipinos cannot aspire to be a people of INTEGRITY as long as Lourdes Sereno sits as “chief justice”

Filipinos like to talk big around the lofty word “integrity”, but do they really know what it means to be a person of integrity? Apparently not — because to be a true person of integrity involves consistency from the ground up. Take this circus surrounding the plight of Supreme Court “chief justice” Lourdes Sereno. One…

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Culture, Government

Cambridge Analytica parent company claims to have won the 2010 elections for Noynoy Aquino!

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Cambridge Analytica parent company claims to have won the 2010 elections for Noynoy Aquino!

It seems Raissa Robles could have incorrectly interpreted the 2013 brochure statement of SCL (“parent company” of the now-infamous Cambridge Analytica) as referring to the Duterte campaign for the 2016 elections. That 2013 brochure (archived by Web.Archive.Org here) cites the Philippines as a case study of an election won on the back of services provided…

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