Fake claims/news, insult our people

IT would appear that political opposition in both national and local levels today have become irresponsible resorting to disseminating fake news in social media and their allies in mainstream media to discredit their targets.

In Dagupan City, the opposition, led by Vice Mayor Brian Lim and Minority Leader Red Erfe-Mejia, attempted to discredit the Fernandez administration by making city residents believe that the city government is negotiating for a P2 billion loan for the planned transfer of the city hall.

This is akin to the fake claim being bandied by the Liberal Party contra the Duterte administration, that there have been 13,000-14,000 extra-judicial killings perpetrated by the police in the war on drugs.

There is only effective way to neutralize dissemination of fake news and claims – immediately call out the sources and challenge the latter to explain how they arrived at their absurd conclusions.

How can Dagupan secure a P2 billion loan when it has no capacity to pay it back? And how can there be 13,000 EJKs when the PNP-PDEA registered only 3,900 died during authorized police operations and are already being investigated?

Being fake, it’s obvious that the purpose is simply to accuse the targets of fake news through innuendos: that Mayor Fernandez will pocket P2-B and President Duterte ordered the killing of 13,000.

Expose and shame the peddlers of fake news/claims. They insult our people’s intelligence.

 

Tactless Trudeau

 UNTIL the tons and tons of Canadian garbage are removed from our land, Justin Trudeau is but a good-for-nothing Prime Minister of Canada.  Said garbage had been declared as commercial goods when shipped here by a Canadian company.  When he was here in 2015, Trudeau promised to haul the wastes back to his home country. Nothing happened. Some three years later, Trudeau was back for the Asean summit last week in Manila—and the garbage issue was again brought to his attention again.  Like in 2015, Trudeau promised anew to have the garbage shipped back to Canada.  On top of this was Trudeau’s dig at the country’s war on drugs, earning the ire of President Duterte—naturally.  “That is a personal and official insult,” Mr. Duterte barked at Trudeau’s rather uncalled-for comments.  Trudeau maybe endowed with good, matinee-idol looks. But as for him having the brains of a statesman?  A different matter altogether.

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