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Media, Social Media

ABS-CBN’s Karen Davila Not A Filipino Citizen!

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QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Quezon City Bureau) –For the longest time, news anchor Karen Davila has been fiercely defending  ABS-CBN and its boss, Gabby Lopez whose Filipino citizenship has been the subject of debate in the ongoing Congressional franchise hearings involving the broadcast network.

But alas, Ms. Davila herself is not a Filipino citizen, according to an investigation by The Adobo Chronicles.

Here’s what AC found out:

Luckily for Burmese Karen, Filipino citizenship is not required to be a broadcaster. Unless, of course, she owns ABS-CBN stocks.

That will be the subject of AC’s next investigation.

Government, Law Enforcement, Religion, Social Media

Anti-Liquor Ban Movement Grows In The Philippines

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – For more than 75 days now, many Filipinos have religiously followed government-imposed protocols to help their country deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Including observing the liquor ban.

But there comes a point when people have had enough. They want their alcohol. Not the 75% or 99% used as disinfectant against the coronavirus.

However, peace-loving Filipinos are not resorting to riots like those that are spreading like wildfire across America. Rather, they are mounting their anti-liquor ban surely but calmly.

Pastor Elon Mask (not his real name), threatened to drink all the Mompo (mass wine) in the sacristy of his parish church, while appetizing on hostia (sacramental host.)

Chef Yeow Can Cook posted on his Facebook page the three top reasons why he thinks the liquor ban should be lifted immediately.

Kristian Bornagain, meanwhile, told The Adobo Chronicles he has been praying fervently to St. Edward, patron of pandemic victims, to protect him and his loved ones from the corona virus, while asking San Miguel (St. Micahel) to intercede with officials to lift the liquor ban.

Will these appeals fall on deaf ears?

Politics, Social Media

Rappler’s Maria Ressa To Sue Donald Trump Over Executive Order

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – In less than 24 hours from Donald Trump’s signing of a new Executive Order that could spell the end for social media “fact-checkers,” Rappler CEO Maria Ressa annouced she will sue the U.S. President for violation of Free Speech.

Trump’s Executive Order seeks to strike down social media companies’ immunity from lawsuit for content posted by their users (Section 230.)  The President himself uses Twitter to criticize and rant against his critics.

Ressa, a U.S. citizen  who runs her online news outlet in the Philippines, is known for her own rant wanting to “take back the Internet” from Facebook and other social media users whom she labels as purveyors of fake news.

Her company Rappler is one of two Facebook-designated fact-checkers in the Philippines.

In speaking with The Adobo Chronicles, Ressa said she stands to lose a lot of money if Trump’s crusade against social media fact checkers will succeed.

“It also doesn’t bode well for my image as a poster girl for Press Freedom and a fierce critic of fake news,” she added.