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SEC Approves Adobo Chronicles’ Fact-Checking License

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0CDE518D-6D3C-421C-8602-4A287C72F08E.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manil Bureau) – One door closes, another open opens.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has uninimously approved the license application of The Adobo Chronicles as a media fact-checker in the Philippines.

The SEC action came just weeks after the social media giant Facebook announced its partnership with Rappler and Vera Files to fact-check news and information spread on the Internet.

The Adobo Chronicles’ new license will enable the news satire site to fact-check the fact-checkers like Rappler and Vera Files.

It will be recalled that SEC earlier revoked Rappler’s media license on the grounds that the online news source headed by Maria Ressa is partly foreign-owned which is a violation of the Philippine Constitution.  Before it donated its investment in Rappler to the the latter’s senior managers, Omidyar Network had an investment in Rappler.

The Adobo Chronicles is a Filipino-American news satire site registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with Registration # 4711386.

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Vera Files To Introduce User-Friendly Icons For Its Fact Check

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Subject to fact-checking by Rappler – Ellen Tordesillas of Vera Files is so enjoying her new-found power to fact-check news and information posted on social media, particularly on Facebook.

Vera Files and Rappler were recently designated partners of Facebook in the social media giant’s worldwide program to curb the spread of fake news on its platform.

Tordesillas wants Vera Files’ fact-check to be user-friendly, so she is introducing icons that would warn netizens that what they are reading on Facebook are false, satire, SPAM, biased, etc.

Here are the fact-checking icons Vera Files will be using, effective immediately:

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Actor Gabby Concepcion Disappointed He Wasn’t Named Chairman Of ABS-CBN

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26AFC4F5-27BB-44E4-B7A1-7039E8472C08QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – He thought he had the chairmanship of ABS-CBN in the bag, after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte cursed him in one of his speeches.

We’re talking about actor Gabby Concepcion.

Now he’s very disappointed. The real ABS-CBN chair Gabby Lopez just announced that Martin ‘Mark’ Lopez will succeed him.

’That cursing from Duterte amounted to nothing.’ Concepcion told The Adobo Chronicles.