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Politics, Social Media, The Media

Philippine News Blog Rappler Accuses Facebook Of Being Undemocratic, Picks A Fight With Mocha Uson

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Uson, left, and Ressa

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – If you can’t lick Mocha Uson, blame Facebook.  This seems to be the expert opinion of Maria Ressa, CEO of the Philippine news blog Rappler.

Uson, for those who don’t know her, is a performer and member of the group Mocha Girls. In recent months she has turned political blogger, gaining the attention of millions of Filipino netizens and the Duterte administration.  She actively campaigned to elect Duterte and remains an avid defender of the president’s policies and actions.

Rappler, on the other hand, is a leading news blog. Many have accused it, however, as among among the biased news media in the country.   We’ll not mention the other since this is about Rappler.

But Uson seems to have overtaken Rappler in terms of “likes” and following, and Ressa is not happy.

In an opinion piece published in her own news blog, Ressa berates what she calls Facebook’s “black box” algorithm which has resulted in Uson’s popularity and Rappler’s continuing decline.

Because we are not a biased outlet, we have taken the liberty of posting in full Ressa’s attack on Facebook.

You be the judge.

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International, Politics, The Media

Donald Trump’s Demand For Final Debate: No Moderator

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LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles, Las Vegas Bureau) – The third and final presidential debate will take place at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas on Wednesday, October 19 from 9pm EST.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump will face each other in a discussion moderated by Fox News Sunday presenter, Chris Wallace.

In a desperate move to bounce back from his crumbling campaign and lackluster performance in the first two debates, Trump is now demanding a new format for Las Vegas. He wants no moderator.

In past debates — in the primaries as well as the general elections — Trump had repeatedly accused, and sometimes insulted, the debate moderators for being biased towards his opponents.  In last night’s debate, Trump called out both Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz, saying the moderators were not giving him as much time as Clinton to respond to questions.

So, for Las Vegas, the Trump campaign wants to eliminate the moderator and have a one-on-one, face to face, smirk to smirk, sniffle to sniffle match with Clinton.

The campaign also asked the Commission on Presidential Debates to get rid of podiums, chairs and microphones to allow its candidate to dance around and stalk Clinton just like he did in St. Louis.

Asked for comment about Trump’s proposal, Clinton told The Adobo Chronicles, “Bring it on!”

In the words of Trump himself, “She doesn’t quit.  She doesn’t give up.”

And why would she?

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Health & Medicine, Politics, Social Media, Technology, The Media

Wikileaks: Trump’s Medical Condition Revealed

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IMG_6279.PNGSTOCKHOLM, Sweden (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – Who would have thought that there could be anything more damaging  to Donald Trump than the explosive audio tape in which he is heard bragging about kissing and groping women?  Well, there is.

The Sweden-based Wikileaks today released a document which apparently confirms a rare medical condition with which the Republican presidential candidate was diagnosed more than 10 years ago.

The document, a certification from Trump’s personal physician, shows that he is suffering from psychosinusitis-XL. There are only about three hundred people worldwide suffering from this condition.

Psychosinusitis-XL is a mental condition which affects a person’s brain. It alters the normal function which allows a person to determine right from wrong, truth from falsehood and childhood vs. adulthood.  The illness manifests itself through the sinuses — the reason it is called psychosinusitis.

Now we know the reason for that constant sniffling we’ve seen and heard from Trump in the last two presidential debates.

CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta told The Adobo Chronicles that the sinus infection itself is benign but the mental condition is malignant.

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