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Monkeypox: Adobo Chronicles Fact-Checks News From Satire Site!

Rappler and other Facebook fact checkers like to fact-check us and other satire sites all the time, so why don’t we turn the table around and let us fact-check a ”fellow” satire site?

Here goes:

A supposed news headline has spread on the Internet where the World Health Organization (WHO) ”advised” gay and bisexual men to halt sexual activity for a 14-day period to slow the spread of the monkeypox virus.

While WHO did issue an advisory urging men who have sex with men to reduce their sexual partners and encounters, it never said they should halt sexual activity for 14 days.

The “news” headline was from Genesius Times, a satirical site. On its facebook page, GT describes itself “the most reliable source of fake news on the planet.”

That was funny GT, but let’s help our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters fight stigma and discrimination, shall we?

Here is an official WHO advisory on monkeypox:

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/hq-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-library/flyer_msm_a4_eng-v5.pdf?sfvrsn=7648499_32

The Late President Noynoy Aquino Will Attend Bongbong Marcos’ First SONA!

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – If CNN Philippines’ Pia Hontiveros, anchor of ”Newsnight” is to be believed, then the late President Noynoy Aquino will be attending the first State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Bongbong Marcos.

In her report on who is expected to attend PBBM’s SONA on July 25, Hontiveros said the ”four former living Presidents” will be attending.

Did she just kill former Presidents Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Rodrigo Duterte, and maybe resurrect the late Benigno Aquino, Jr.?

True to its meme, Newsnight really goes above and beyond the headlines!