Tatad’s fake data: ‘14,000 EJKs’
comparisons he used, where he has lived since the 1980s—in the US.
Duterte’s bloody war on drugs is widely estimated to register over 13,000 deaths, more than twice the combined total of those who per Harbor, and terrorists crashed World TradeCenter towers.”
Duterte is doubly worse than the Japanese militarists of the 1940s and al-Qaida chief, the late Osama bin Laden? This guy must be a crackpot.
replied: “From my unimpeachable police source.” Right.
Even apparently good ( and to bogus data.
For instance, Sheila Coronel is a former executive director - vestigative Journalism and currently the director of Columbia University’s Stabile Center of melodramatically titled “A presiThere was another opinion piece, dency bathed in blood” she wrote: published on the same day as “The drug war, which Duterte ofTatad’s that had a roughly similar figure. This was in the whose writer as many as 9,000 suspected drug unwittingly disclosed, with the dealers and users.”
Crackpot writer Numerous reports
9,000 number. She replied: “Numerous news reports quote that figure.” She even gave me the asked her why she “didn’t bother to verify if this is fake news, used mostly by Western media. “
results she sent me had several reports specifically disproving articles. She hasn’t bothered to correct the bogus data she spread in the US. So much for fairness and
Bogus data like Tatad’s is much, much worse than fake news because it uses, but distorts, real data. more. They are taken as true for so long, which is the case with the
By contrast, fake news is so easily demolished, once it is shown had Makabenta fooled) and not at all a legitimate news organization. Just make it a habit to search what kind of entity really is that which your Facebook timeline.
distorted data that reported total homicides being investigated by
Quite ironically, Rappler distort collect only when the war vs drugs was launched, and made publicly available. This data was the num investigating, which it collected as one of its checks against summary executions by rogue cops in the war against illegal drugs.
were “suspected drug personalities killed in police operations” and the 4,525 “deaths under investigation or investigation concluded.
How or where
So how or where did Tatad get his fake 14,000- EJKs figure?
One explanation is that it is based on Rappler’s 7,080 EJKs, which it claimed was for the period July 1, 2016 to January 31, 2017. This is for 7 months, which means a monthly average of 1,000 - orously debunked that figure-those who have vowed to topple Duterte would use that monthly average to erroneously “extrapolate” the number of EJKs at the time they write.
copied from allegations in June (nine months from July) that EJKs totaled 9,000 (1,000 multiplied by - to, 1,000 times 14 months…
However, it’s not Tatad’s cup of tea to do research and pretend to be a statistician so he could concoct fake data.
Duterte”, and saw an article -
The very Catholic Tatad of course would see the “Catholic” in the title in large neon lights, and read in the article a 14, 000 a year since Duterte swept into the presidency and unleashed a vicious war on drugs, there have been more than 14,000 murders and homicides, according to government statistics.”
Since in his religious mind Duterte is a murderous president, Tatad didn’t see 14,000
14,000 .
*See my column *“How Rappler misled EU, Human Rights Watch, CNN, Time, BBC — the world,”
May 19, 2017.