Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque promised on November 21 that he plans to take the Metro Rail Transit 3 every week to understand the commuters’ problems and bring them personally to the MRT management. [ads2] “I wish I could give you a deadline. All I can offer you is I can offer once a week to […] More
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein slammed President Rodrigo Duterte on November 21 for his repeated threats to slap UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard if she pushes through with investigating Duterte over allegations of extrajudicial killings. [ads2] Zeid, through his spokesperson Rupert Colville, relayed his statement on the threats […] More
Staunch Duterte supporter and blogger Sass Rogando Sasot hit the supporters of the Liberal Party for using her dead brother’s photo and claiming that it was her in the picture. [ads2] “So someone sent me this. The supporters of the Liberal Party of the Philippines are circulating it among themselves,” Sasot wrote in a Facebook […] More
Rappler social media producer Paige Occeñola fact-checked Duterte supporter and blogger Rey Joseph Nieto, a.k.a. Thinking Pinoy when he shaded Rappler for not issuing errata. [ads2] “Fact check: Rappler does issue errata. In fact, we have a corrections page which has ALL of our corrections. We’re very transparent about our mistakes,” Occeñola tweeted on November […] More
Avid Duterte supporter and blogger Rey Joseph Nieto, a.k.a. Thinking Pinoy, issued an erratum over making a graphic attributing a misquoted statement to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. [ads2] Nieto made the correction on November 16, hours after Rappler published a report on how Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson shares Nieto’s graphic with the wrong […] More
Unlike the earlier report claiming there are at least 100 foreign jihadists who entered the Philippines, the military said on November 20 that it was monitoring 8 suspects in Mindanao. [ads2] On November 19, the Philippine Star said that their sources claimed that at least 100 foreign jihadists who were trained by the Islamic State […] More
Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson has repeatedly issued statements clarifying that she is not running for the Senate this 2019 and gave a few reasons why. On November 18, she wrote another statement denying a Senate run in the upcoming 2019 elections. “I AM NOT RUNNING. Hindi ako magpapaligoy ligoy ng sagot. Malinaw ang sagot […] More
President Rodrigo Duterte said he wants the public to decide on PDP-Laban party’s senatorial line for the 2019 elections. [ads2] On November 17, House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez announced a partial list of his party’s senatorial candidates, which include Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, former MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino, Bataan Rep. Geraldine […] More
Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar said Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson has a possibility of winning if she decides to run for senator this 2019. [ads2] “Kung winnability lang ang pag-usapan, or ‘yung the possibility of winning ay talagang no-brainer na si Mocha, she can really draw the crowd in a Senate […] More
Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson clarified that she does not plan on running for senator this 2019 elections after House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez announced it on November 17. [ads2] “Una po sa lahat, we attended the oath taking of the new PDP Laban members upon the invitation of Presidential Assistant for Visayas, Michael Dino. Walang […] More
Days after getting confronted by a Duterte supporter in the Philippines, BBC South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head, he commented on the insults his bashers threw his way. [ads2] “The joys of reporting the Philippines these days,” he tweeted on November 16. One of the bashers in his screenshot even wished for Head to “get […] More
A Twitter user called the attention of “amateur Malacañang staff” and tried to correct the program used during the state banquet hosted by the Palace for Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. [ads2] The alternative Twitter page of Communications Asec. Mocha Uson with the handle AltAsecMargauxUson tweeted her corrections, hitting first the way China’s official name was […] More