Monthly Archives: June 2020

Politics, Social Media

Donald Trump Outlaws K-pop, TikTok In The U.S.

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TULSA, Oklahoma  (The Adobo Chronicles, Tulsa Bureau) – President Donald Trump was confident he could fill the 19,000-capacity venue of his Tulsa political rally today. That did not happen. Not only was the venue just about half full, but the planned overflow outside was all but scratched.

So what happened?

K-pop fans, along with TikTok users, apparently sabotaged the rally at the BOK Center.

Political commentators deduced that K-pop fans as well as TikTok users had mobilized to reserve tickets to the rally with no intention of going.

Upon being informed of what happened, Trump immediately issued an Executive Order banning from the Internet in the U.S. anything that’s related to both K-pop and TikTok.

”That should give them a lesson,” the President said, “for being bad, very bad people.”

It wasn’t clear how The White House would see through the implementation of the order.

Social Media, Technology

Facebook Drops Fact Checker Rappler!

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Almost a week after Maria Ressa was found guilty of cyber libel, Facebook announced that it was  dropping Rappler as one of the designated fact checkers for the social media giant in the Philippines. (The other FB fact checker is Vera Files.)

In a FB Messenger chat with The Adobo Chronicles, Mark Zuckerberg said that he could no longer justify Ressa and her online outfit being a designated fact checker when she herself has been found guilty of manufacturing facts. “It makes no sense,” Zuckerberg said.

But not all is lost for Rappler. Ressa revealed that she just signed a new contract with  a Russian firm for Rappler to be a face checker for the online app, FaceApp.

FaceApp has gained notoriety in the last few weeks because of its new online tool which netizens can use to find out how they would look like as the opposite gender.

Rappler’s task is to make sure that netizens are uploading their own authentic photos to FaceApp, and not photos of other people.

 

Beauty, Social Media, Technology

FACT CHECK: Rappler Says FaceApp Is Fake

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Leave it to Facebook Fact Checker Rappler to declare that the viral FaceApp that transforms men into women and vice versa is fake, a hoax.

The FaceApp has caught the attention of Filipino netizens, including top celebrities who are curious to see what they would look like if they had been of the opposite gender.

To prove its verdict, Rappler staff used the app to find out how their CEO  Maria Ressa would look like if she had been male. To their surprise, the app didn’t work! They found no difference between Ressa the female and Ressa the male.