Rappler insists on its ‘7,080-killed’ fake news; resorts to adhominem arguments

IN a panicky tone, the news website Rappler (rappler.com) insisted in an article that the lie it had fabricated, that there were 7,080 drug-related killings since President Duterte assumed power, which it spread around the world, is true. This is despite all the debunking and data the Philippine National Police itself and I have presented.

Rappler’s epic lie—or intentional boo- boo—as I explained in the preceding two columns, involved misinterpreting the PNP’s number of “deaths under investigation or concluded investigation”, 4,525, as all due to the campaign against illegal drugs, when the PNP itself—which after all created that category—says they are not, that it included all kinds of killings, of all motives, from road rage to robbery.

Rappler then added this number to

- was wrong, the Rappler article no longer mentions that now infamous article of

“What we are claiming as those re corded as deaths under investigation expose was wrong, . What data does it present for this? were not part of the war on drugs,” said PNP Chief Ronald dela Rosa in from cases of murder, homicide, riding in

: with its lone police reporter? - - pines’ image in her message to the

writer the executive editor Maria Ressa? Or is it managing editor Glenda Gloria or the writer of the original epic lie, a researcher, Board of Directors?

- page post (a fourth of the length of this column), it resorts to

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how Rappler can assert such a false reported

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Vintage yellow thinking

criticized, claim that there’s a explanation for his series of fake

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AD HOMINEM EXPERTS: Rappler executive editor Maria Ressa (left), managing editor Glenda Gloria (middle): “Tiglao is just an exjournalist, out to get Rappler.” Do they know whom they’re really working for (right)?