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news items or feature articles from the following websites need not be taken seriously. as they're meant to be satires and parodies, they might as well be simply enjoyed:

The Adobo Chronicles
 
So, What's News?
   
Mosquito Press

The Philippine Trend
   
The Philippine Chronicle
   
Eritas Times
   
The Philippine Pride
   
Pinoy Trending
   
Baskille
   
The Sick Man of Asia
   
XOLXOL.ph

international sites that Pinoys often share on FB:

The Onion
   
ChristWire
   
ClickHole

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Philippines/comments/2uyjy4/list_of_filipino_satire_sites/

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an example from The Philippine Pride website (as related news or further reference for a news item from Philippines Lifestyle) that set me thinking...

1) knee jerk reaction: this is too serious a matter to be missed by the mainstream media.

2) it has a narrated youtube release that appears like a news report complete with footages from a UN assembly focusing on some ambassadors to the UN from different countries whose speeches are not heard at all because of the voice over (funny, that).

3) the philippines is being warned of being dropped from UN membership if the country's corruption continues? at no. 85 out of 174 countries (according to transparency international, which happens to be the most credible source of world corruption index around) what happens to the lower 89 others?

4) the author's name is fanny jalacjac of assisted press geneva (hahaha!)

5) its accompanying image is the assembly hall of the UN headquarters in new york, not in geneva


UN to End Philippines’ Membership if Corruption Continues


UN_General_Assembly 11/22/2014 – Geneva | UN is stepping-up to pressure Philippines to act against corruption. In the latest joint report released by United Nations and Transparency International, Philippines remains one of the most corrupt countries in the world, and the most corrupt democratic country.

Pakistan, Somalia, North Korea, and Iraq are the only countries ahead of Philippines.

“Philippines has a dysfunctional government when it comes to corruption”, the report said.

The report listed the “Pork Barrel Scam” as the biggest single scam scandal in Asia in the last 10 years which involves an estimated amount of $222.7M (P10B). Further details reveal that an estimated 40% of the P2.265T 2014 budget signed by Aquino will likely end up to politicians’ pockets.

The United Nations warns Philippines that it will remove the country from membership if Aquino or the next president could not improve the country’s corruption level in the next five years.

more at http://www.thephilippinepride.com/un-warns-philippines-to-end-its-membership-if-corruption-is-not-curtailed/

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Facebook has worked at limiting the reach of hoax-purveying sites in their customers’ news feeds, inhibiting (but not eradicating) the spread of fake news stories. Hoaxes and fake news are often little more than annoyances to unsuspecting readers, but sometimes circulating stories negatively affect businesses or localities by spreading false, disruptive claims that are widely believed.

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NATIONAL REPORT

No list of shameless misinformation spread would be complete without a mention of National Report (and its omnipresent former lead writer, Paul Horner), as the site is (or was) perhaps the most prominent example of its genre.

Among  National Report‘s most widespread hoaxes were claims that notorious street artist Banksy was arrested and unmasked (as Paul Horner, naturally), that a teen was imprisoned over a “swatting prank,” and that a U.S. company was hiring mercenaries to kill ISIS militants. While most of the site’s efforts have been relatively benign, their fake story about an Ebola outbreak’s prompting a quarantine in Purdon, Texas, caused headaches for local officials at the height of ongoing coverage about the virus.



National Report (and its “satirical” brethren) have sustained huge losses of traffic in the wake of Facebook’s algorithm changes intended to limit the reach of fake news. In response, sites have been established that spoof the domain names of legitimate news outlets such as the Washington Post and USA Today which mirror the National Report‘s content in order to more efficiently dupe readers and work around Facebook’s restrictions.

(The ubiquitous Paul Horner has since moved on to the equally fake News Examiner site, continuing to offer fictitious stories about subjects such as the world’s first successful head transplant.)

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HUZLERS

While National Report and World News Daily Report often take advantage of politically, socially, or religiously divisive issues to drive outrage-based traffic, Huzlers employs a markedly different approach to fake news hoaxes, often invoking the names of popular brands and restaurants in its quest to snare readers with gross-out stories.

Among Huzlers’ most prominent yarns: Chipotle was caught using cat and dog meat in their dishes, Starbucks was discovered to be using semen in their beverages, Arizona iced tea tested positive for urine, and McDonald’s was outed for including human meat in their products.



Like its fellows, Huzlers tailors its scope to leverage topical news trends. A popular claim made by the site (at the apex of an Ebola outbreak) involved zombies, and another alleged that a man had traded his toddler to buy an Apple Watch.

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STUPPID

Fake news sites often play to users’ existing beliefs to spread their claims, but Stuppid (a site that truly lives up to its name) is less focused in its contribution to the avalanche of fakery on the Internet. Efforts by Stuppid largely encompass morally offensive fabrications, such as a claim parents admitted to having sex in front of their kids to teach them about procreation, another about a Florida man marrying a baby, and a salacious tale of an incestuous mother-daughter relationship.



Stuppid frequently swipes publicly-available photographs such as mugshots and deliberately misattributes them, as they did in a story about two Floridians allegedly arrested for selling golden tickets to Heaven. Another such story involved a death row inmate’s purported request for a last meal of kittens illustrated with a photograph of deceased serial killer Dorothea Puente.


While the five sites referenced here represent only a small sample of the overall “satire” nuisance on social media, many widely-dispersed fake news claims have originated with them. All of the above-mentioned sites exist solely to spread false information, and none can be trusted as legitimate sources (no matter how compelling their claims might be).

http://now.snopes.com/

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compare that "news item" dated august 15, 2015 to this, dated march 13, 2007 by another author:


Philippines most corrupt, survey says

By Carlos H. Conde
Published: Tuesday, March 13, 2007

   
MANILA — Expatriate businessmen in Asia perceive the Philippines as the most corrupt country in the region, according to a survey released Tuesday.

Singapore was ranked as the least corrupt of the 13 economies surveyed, followed by Hong Kong and Japan, according to the annual corruption survey conducted by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, based in Hong Kong.

"The Philippines has the distinction of being perceived in the worst light this year," the survey stated. "People are just growing tired of the inaction and insincerity of leading officials when they promise to fight corruption."

The survey, conducted in January and February, queried 1,476 expatriate executives in 13 countries and territories in Asia. The Philippines scored 9.40, where a score of zero is the least corrupt and 10 is the most corrupt.

In the 2006 survey, in which Indonesia was regarded as the most corrupt, the Philippines scored 7.80. Indonesia improved its score to 8.03 this year, a development that the report credits to a government anti-corruption campaign.

The report noted, however, that for the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand, where corruption is systemic, "it is really splitting hairs to say which one has a worse problem."

"The Philippines has been getting the least amount of foreign direct investment, and the level of foreign capital flowing to its stock market is also less than in either Indonesia or Thailand," the report noted.

To the question "How effective is the judicial system at prosecuting and punishing individuals for corruption when abuses are uncovered?" the respondents gave the Philippines a score of 9.06, with 10 being "ineffective."

The poll is certain to rile President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who has claimed that her government's efforts against corruption are bearing fruit. Arroyo hired Tony Kwok, an anti-corruption crusader from Hong Kong credited for stamping out corruption in the Chinese territory, as an adviser in 2005.

To the question "To what extent is corruption a deterrent to your willingness to invest and expand your business?" the Philippines scored 8.50, with 10 reflecting "a major deterrent."

Local corruption monitors confirm that graft and bribery in the Philippines remain rampant. Corruption has penetrated every level of government, from the Bureau of Customs down to the traffic police officers who pull over motorists to demand bribes.

Nearly $2 billion dollars, or roughly 13 percent of the Philippines' annual budget, is lost to corruption in the country each year, according to the United Nations Development Program.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/business/

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In all, the survey was conducted in over a two month period at the beginning of 2015 and questioned 1,476 expat executives in the 13 countries and territories throughout Asia.

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the Philippines scored 9.40 out of 10 on corruption, giving it the number one spot.

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The survey, conducted in January and February, queried 1,476 expatriate executives in 13 countries and territories in Asia. The Philippines scored 9.40, where a score of zero is the least corrupt and 10 is the most corrupt.

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In 2006, the same survey gave the most corrupt nation to Indonesia – in that same year, the Philippines scored a 7.80 – Indonesia was still high in corruption in 2015 with an overall score of 8.03.

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In the 2006 survey, in which Indonesia was regarded as the most corrupt, the Philippines scored 7.80. Indonesia improved its score to 8.03 this year, a development that the report credits to a government anti-corruption campaign.

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Another question asked –  “To what extent is corruption a deterrent to your willingness to invest and expand your business?” the Philippines scored 8.50, with 10 reflecting “a major deterrent.”

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To the question "To what extent is corruption a deterrent to your willingness to invest and expand your business?" the Philippines scored 8.50, with 10 reflecting "a major deterrent."

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Local corruption monitors including the United Nations confirms that graft and bribery is common place throughout the Philippines.

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Corruption has penetrated every level of government within the country – from the Police Officers who pull you over for a bribe, all the way to the Bureau of Customs and more.

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Local corruption monitors confirm that graft and bribery in the Philippines remain rampant. Corruption has penetrated every level of government, from the Bureau of Customs down to the traffic police officers who pull over motorists to demand bribes.

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It is estimated that nearly $2-billion dollars, or roughly 13% of the Philippines annual budget is lost to corruption each year, this according to the United Nations Development Program.

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Nearly $2 billion dollars, or roughly 13 percent of the Philippines' annual budget, is lost to corruption in the country each year, according to the United Nations Development Program.

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The same United Nations has threatened the Philippines for its inaction against corruption issues and has issued a stern warning it would be kicked out of the programs which help assist it, or for those lacking ideology, they will pull the plug on more corruption.

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