Have you discovered duplicate or dummy Facebook accounts under your name? You are not alone. A sudden surge of fake accounts has surfaced allegedly targeting students, activists, journalists, and others over the weekend amid the series of protests for the scrapping of the controversial Anti-terrorism bill. Photo courtesy of Pexels.com The alarm was first reported by U.P. Cebu’s official student publication Tugani, which said fake accounts of student activists who were arrested in a protest on June 5 were discovered.     Thousands of users across the country have also reported multiple ghost users that bear their names without any picture...

On Thursday, June 4, 2020, amidst the resistance and outrage to the anti-terror bill which feared majority that it might be solely used by the government against its critics and opposition. Mocha Uson, Deputy Administrator of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), has struck once again by tagging the #JunkTerrorBillNow protesters as ‘terrorists’ – the thing that Filipinos are most worried about the bill. Uson’s now-deleted the tweet that pertained to the various youth groups picketed at the University of the Philippines Diliman last June 4. Her tweet was screenshot by netizens which immediately went viral – making her a...

#JunkTerrorBillNow is in this week’s top trends as the House Committee on Public Order and Safety (HCPOS) and the House Committee on National Defense and Security approved the substitute bill for Human Security Act, now the Anti-Terrorism Bill. The said bill claims to seek the prevention, prohibition, and penalization of any act that falls under its definition of terrorism. This means anyone who can be considered a threat to the state by proposing, inciting, conspiring, or participating in acts of terrorism can be incriminated. The bill was certified as “urgent” by President Duterte on Monday through a letter to House...

Ngayong Lunes, June 1, 2020, ay ganap nang sumailalim ang buong Metro Manila sa general community quarantine (GCQ) sa bisa ng kautusan ng Pangulong Duterte. Bago ang tuluyang pagpapalit mula modified ECQ, ay bumuhos ang mga samu’t saring reaksyon mula sa pangambang baka magbunsod lamang ito ng lalong pagtaas ng kaso ng COVID-19 sa bansa. Tinawag ng mga netizens na “Survivor Philippines” at “Hunger games” ang tila kahihinatnan ng mga tao sa Metro Manila dahil sa banta ng pandemya at pagpapaluwag ng mga kautusan kasabay ng paglampas ng bilang ng 18,000 na kumpirmadong kaso sa bansa.   Sa kabila ng...