Category Archives: Social Media

Social Media

BREAKING: Leni Robredo, Kiko Pangilinan Burned In Cebu City!

Leave a comment

CEBU CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Cebu Bureau) – With just about a month before election day, Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Kiko Pangilinan were burned today in Cebu City!

Well, not them personally, but their giant tarpaulins put up on the facade of a building along Legaspi Street which caught fire Friday morning.

This development sent jitters to the Leni-Kiko campaign and their followers, adding unnecessary stress and frustration following poll after poll showing Robredo is far behind frontrunner Bongbong Marcos in the presidential race.

A bad omen?

Politics, Social Media, The Media

Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa’s Rappler Rejoices Over Internet Censorship!

Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Rappler founder and CEO Maria Ressa’s Nobel Peace Prize was predicated on her supposed advocacy for press freedom, yet her actions and that of her least-trusted news brand in the Philippines seem to contradict the very premise of her award.

Rappler, known for its anti-Duterte and anti-Marcos stance, appeared to rejoice and celebrate over Facebook’s decision to warn viewers of the SMNI news network and film director Darryl Yap’s Facebook pages for alleged fake news and propaganda.

Instead of defending SMNI and Yap’s right to free speech, Rappler happily announced the FB sanction on its social media account:

For its part, Rappler is known to be weaponizing its social media platform to attack the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte and presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos and his family.

Rappler is one of Facebook’s fact-checking partners in the Philippines.

There have been calls to revoke Ressa’s Nobel Prize because of the consensus that she didn’t deserve the honor, vis a vis, for example, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.