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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].

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[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...

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>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.

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.

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