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Facebook Shuts Down The Onion’s Page!

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MENLO PARK, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Jose Bureau) – The Onion, considered the father (or mother) of fake news is the first victim of Facebook’s crackdown announced earlier by Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg announced a 7-point plan which he says will combat the spread of fake news on the popular social network.     

Many people have complained and speculated that the proliferation of fake news in recent months influenced the outcome of the November 8 elections in which Donald Trump won the presidency through the electoral college votes.  Hillary Clinton, however, won the popular vote.

In announcing the closure of The Onion’s Facebook page, Zuckerberg said, “we are gunning for the big fish here, and what could be a bigger fish than the publication and online ‘news’ site that started this monster called fake news.”

Zuckerberg said that next in line to be shut down is the New Yorker’s Borrowitz Report, another big-time purveyor of fake news.

As for The Adobo Chronicles, Zuckerberg said, “They’re small fish.”

Gee, thanks Mark!

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Politics, Social Media

Philippine Senator Leila De Lima: New ‘Frail Woman of Asia?’

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IMG_6979.PNGMANILA, Philippines –   There’s ‘Pretty Woman’ (Julie Roberts). ‘Iron Lady’ (Margaret Thatcher.  Then there’s Philippine Senator Leila De Lima, ‘Frail Woman.’

The lady senator, a harsh critic of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s war on drugs, has finally admitted her relationship with her former driver, Ronnie Dayan, but denied other allegations linking her to the drug trade.

For the first time in months after Duterte said she was an immoral woman for having an affair with her married driver, De Lima broke her silence and confirmed that she had a relationship with the Dayan for “a few years.”

Asked why she fell for Dayan, De Lima said it is due to the “frailties of a woman.”

Filipina netizens immediately took to social media to denounce De Lima for perpetuating a negative stereotype of women, with some even calling her statement ‘misogynistic.’

Earlier, women’s groups came to the rescue of De Lima when a congressional committee hearing looking into the illegal drug proliferation inside the New Bilibid Prison (National Penitentiary) threatened to show her alleged sex videotapes.  The groups denounced what they called “slut-shaming.”

But now, will the same women’s groups support De Lima’s statement on women frailty?

And has the senator just earned the title “Frail Woman of Asia?”

Media, Politics, Social Media

Adobo Chronicles Becomes First U.S.-based News Media To Move Out

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SAN JOSE, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Francisco Bureau) – Tens of thousands of individuals have moved or are planning to move out of the U.S. after the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president.

As previously reported by The Adobo Chronicles, Americans are moving to Canada, Europe, Australia and elsewhere to escape the next four years of the Trump presidency,

Now, The Adobo Chronicles, has announced that it is moving its U.S. headquarters (in San Jose, California) to Manila in the Philippines.

The publishers said that a government under Trump is not conducive to a safe, intelligent and politically-correct news reporting, considering the president-elect’s rhetoric and pronouncements during his campaign.

“His attacks on Mexicans, Muslims, women, the disabled, the sick, immigrants, as well as his vice president’s promise to outlaw same-sex marriage and LGBT rights do not enable us to produce news content that is authentically pleasant, respectful and truthful,” they said.`

“The Adobo Chronicles’ editors, staff reporters, photographers and iReporters belong to all the marginalized communities that Trump has belittled,” they added.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has been quite pleased with The Adobo Chronicles‘ fair and accurate reporting, has offered free office space in the presidential palace (Malacañang) for this Filipino-American news outlet.

The Adobo Chronicles will maintain its news bureaus in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Berlin, and Tokyo