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FYI, since 2016 a certain Liberal Party Senator and Maria Ressa wants total control of social media and internet.

For those who have no idea about the Philippines and its politics. Rappler is a George Soros funded media outfit and Maria Ressa is well known Aquino (former president) or Liberal Party apologist. In the Philippines, Facebook, not twitter, is the more popular medium people used to engage in social media and politics and Rappler is losing the social media battle in Facebook that's why Maria Ressa is so desparate to get the attention of foreign media. And, from what I read Rappler is in trouble with funding.

The main reason why people are staying away from Rappler is becuase they spin almost all of their news about Duterte and the present administration. Yes there are fake news in Facebook but there are certainly a lot of fake news in Rappler, really.

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Bullshit. Fake news is different from bias. CNN is biased. Fox News is biased. Rappler is biased. What they don't do is pass of fake information or rumors as news, like saying "since 2016 a certain Liberal Party Senator and Maria Ressa wants total control of social media and internet." You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts.

You should watch the 2016 senate hearing

So it's not Duerte that wants total control of media there, but people who he is after, do I read it right?

Since when did Duterte wants to control social media? Liberal Party wants to control social media since 2016.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbqkmb/its-super-dangerou...

From the article that you linked:

"But before Duterte took office, as president-elect, he sent a chilling message to a press corps ready to report on his presidency: "Just because you're a journalist, you're not exempted from assassination, if you are a son of a bitch," he said casually at a press conference. "Free speech won't save you, my dear."

>> The problem is when a foreign journalist, like Gianna Toboni, writes something she know little about so let me give you a little more background about that statement. What Duterte said that "you're not exempted from assassination, if you are a son of a bitch" was NOT a threat but a FACT. It is a FACT that decades before the Duterte presidency journalists here were being killed simply because journalists (FACT) here can be paid and used for black propaganda by politicians. We know what he was talking about.

It's always troubling when authority figures need people to explain what they meant instead of being able to state it clearly themselves, but since you say Duterte was making a comment on the past, perhaps you'd care to explain why he's doing so using the present and future tense.

This is the second post in the thread where you've basically said that murder is an acceptable response to journalistic corruption. As you're so in love with your 'FACT' perhaps you can give us a factual definition of what makes someone a 'son of a bitch.'

What is more troubling is when people like you, who have no first hand knowledge, insists that you know better by just reading a few articles on the internet. And, you're pathetic to assume that murder is acceptable.

I haven't insisted on anything, and you're just attempting to duck the questions I posed.

Duterte specifically speaks of journalists risking assassination and you're OK with that. Assassination is synonymous with murder so you shouldn't have any problem with my use of the term.

Oh dang. An appeal to 'vice news'. here comes the unbiased truth fo sho..

or, alternatively: the orthodox usa-slightly-left liberal-democratic corporatist globalist line, only cool and with more bite

I'm sure they want to take control of the social media, since Duterte has pretty much been spreading fake news [0] along with his facebook army of trolls [1 & 2] to discredit the opposition. And sometimes even members of the Duterte cabinet [3] are doing it as well to link the opposition to a terrorist conspiracy. He even has some control in twitter, having been discovered by a social media analytics firm that 20% of those who mention Duterte are actually bots [4].

sources:

[0] http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/19/17/duterte-says-he-invent...

[1] http://preen.inquirer.net/58185/a-list-of-mocha-usons-fake-n...

[2] https://memebuster.net/thinking-pinoy-apologized-posting-fak...

[3] http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/905074/robredo-slams-aguirre-fo...

[4] https://newrepublic.com/article/138952/rodrigo-dutertes-army...

To discredit the opposition, really?! You're naive. The opposition needs not to be discredited because of their fuck ups for 6 years!

Read about how the former President Aquino and his Liberal Party cohorts who approved the UNTESTED dengue vaccine, DengVaxia!!! It was discovered recently when Sanofi Pasteur declared it as unsafe. Now because of the stupidity of those people 700K+ kids will pay the price because of their greed?! How many already died up-to-date?!

If they are, then what's with all of these trial by publicity, spreading of fake news, and making of baseless accusations? And by the way, the opposition isn't solely composed of the Liberal Party. I guess it's a result of the propaganda machine that labels anyone that's against Duterte as an LP supporter.

Kids are dying and the former administrator are trying to cover it up. If you can't wrap around your head with this better shut the hell up.

I know that and they better be investigated and held accountable, but that doesn't excuse the faults of the current administration.

>He even has some control in twitter, having been discovered by a social media analytics firm that 20% of those who mention Duterte are actually bots [4].

How is that credible evidence of “having some control in twitter”? Because 20% of his mentions are bots? any major politician going to attract the attention of automated press wire bots and aggregators, the idea of using that as evidence is a conspiracy theory.

Apologies then as perhaps I've misworded there. I was trying to say that his presence extends to twitter and that it is at least significant/worthy of attention.

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