Lawyer and staunch Duterte supporter Bruce Rivera hope fake meme makers be struck by lightning for trying to mislead people. [ads2] Rivera said he removed the meme containing the fake statement of Senator Risa Hontiveros about her wanting to have Filipino soldiers investigated for suspected overkill in the deaths of terrorist leaders Omar Maute and […] More
Duterte supporter lawyer Bruce Rivera fell for the fake meme circulating online that claimed Senator Risa Hontiveros wanted to have the Filipino soldiers investigated over suspicions of overkill in the deaths of terrorist leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute. “Pwede ba, ipaimbestigahan din natin ang naglagay ng botox sa mukha mo at mukhang overkill din […] More
Human rights organization Amnesty International Philippines apologized and corrected the wrong figure “13M” for the number of drug-related deaths in the country after Duterte supporters slammed them for their mistake. [ads2] “Erratum: On Amnesty International Philippines’ official Facebook and Twitter accounts, the post regarding deaths under the ‘war on drugs’ was incorrectly written as 13M. […] More
Actress Agot Isidro took to Twitter to react to a Duterte supporter confronting a BBC correspondent over the broadcasting company’s interview with an anti-Duterte blogger. [ads2] “Sweetie, last year BBC tried to get in touch with me for an interview, too. If they want to talk to you, they will find you. Do the math,” […] More
Netizens called out ABS-CBN’s ANC Facebook page for mistakenly writing its caption that marijuana plants were seized in Davao City instead of Danao City. Pro-Duterte blogger Rey Joseph Nieto, a.k.a. Thinking Pinoy, was among those who corrected ANC’s page for the error. [ads2] “Sa sobrang gigil ng ABS-CBN News, nabobo na sa geography. DANAO HINDI […] More
Is ‘Philippines’ that hard to spell? After the mistake of the ASEAN organizers in using “Philppines” in the posters welcoming ASEAN delegates to Manila, US President Donald Trump committed the same mistake and misspelled the name of the host country. [ads2] On November 12, Trump tweeted about his trip to the Philippines, but spelled it […] More
Some supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte came out to defend their fellow supporter, Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson, against the criticisms leveled against her over her mistakes in her letter to her boss, Communications Secretary Martin Andanar. [ads2] Mike Acebedo Lopez admitted to being a grammar nazi himself, but said that Uson’s critics merely focused […] More
The Philippines, as the ASEAN 2017 chairmanship, made a lot of preparations for hosting country leaders and representatives, but it looked like the organizers missed out on at least one thing – the correct spelling of the name of our country. [ads2] Some netizens spotted the “Philppines,” without the “i” after “l,” on the posters […] More
After her letter was proofread for errors and went viral, some netizens spotted a new set of errors that Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson committed. This time, they noticed mistakes in her spelling. [ads2] Twitter user @kaeofficial tweeted a screenshot of Uson’s post comparing Rappler to blog MindaVote. @kaeofficial wrote, “Online base? Writters? Prints? Huh? […] More
Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson pointed out the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s ‘honest mistake’ in its report about the Manila-Clark railway and wonders if the people who were quick to point her grammatical errors like broadcast journalist Anthony “Tunying” Taberna would be able to call out the newspaper. “Alam ko po na ito ay honest mistake […] More
University of the Philippines journalism professor Danilo Arao tweeted his edited version of the letter that Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson sent to her boss, Secretary Martin Andanar, asking to reclassify online news site Rappler as a social media organization instead of being a member of the Malacañang Press Corps (MPC). […] More
It seems like Manila Times columnist Rigoberto “Bobi” Tiglao was one of those who believed that the Philippine Daily Inquirer misled the people by using the photo of an El Shaddai gathering in Luneta for a report about the “Start the Healing” rally on Edsa on November 3. However, he later deleted the post and […] More