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The article gives zero proof of any kind of fake accounts aside from fake profile pictures, and calls Facebook out for not removing the accounts, even thought F
by RyanZAG 9y ago
The article gives zero proof of any kind of fake accounts aside from fake profile pictures, and calls Facebook out for not removing the accounts, even thought Facebook says they have removed the fake ones. So clearly Facebook does not feel that those particular accounts are fake either.
Calling someone you don't like a "fake account" (as someone has already hinted about me in this very comment section!), does not suddenly turn it into a fake account. It's a real account until you provide absolute proof - especially when the supposed fake account has the same opinion as 80mil+ people in a country. Sorry.
The rest of your argument hinges on the idea that 80mil people are terribly stupid and can't tell fake accounts from real accounts - even though they live in the country - and have fallen for a ruse. While you, in your great wisdom - who has probably never been in the Philippines? - know them all to be fake without any evidence. That's a fairly poor argument in my opinion.
- Lazare 9y agoAs we've learned to our sorrow people in first world countries (eg, Americans, Germans, etc.) can't reliably detect fake accounts or fake news stories. Why should Filipinos be uniquely able to do so?
- RyanZAG 9y agoI don't believe that is true. You want it to be true, and so you've fallen for it. The only kind of fake news stories anybody falls for are fake news stories that support their own biases. Such as this article, but that goes without saying.
- yorwba 9y ago> The only kind of fake news stories anybody falls for are fake news stories that support their own biases. I'd rather say that people only fall for fake news stories that don't run counter to their own biases. I.e. when someone is completely ignorant about a topic, and the first story they read about it is fake news, they might believe it. In any case, you seem to be agreeing that people fall for fake news that supports their own biases, hence: >> people in first world countries (eg, Americans, Germans, etc.) can't reliably detect fake accounts or fake news stories. They can reliably detect whether something does or does not agree with their preexisting knowledge/biases, but that doesn't always help with detecting fake accounts or fake news.
- RyanZAG 9y agoThe article itself provides no proof that the people they are calling fake are indeed fake. That counts as being deliberately malicious in my book, but I'd think it would count as being 'biased' in anybody's book. That's all I wanted to bring to people's attention. Often just pointing it out to people is enough to help sway them away from making a mistake, and trusting this article as being on the level would be a terrible mistake for anyone to make.
- veidr 9y agoYou are utterly wrong about that, and it is easily proven. (People not only believe the fake news stories, some of them even arm themselves and storm pizza parlors to rescue the innocent children Hillary Clinton is trafficking as sex slaves, or refuse to vaccinate their kids and thereby put their own children and others at risk, etc etc etc etc etc). But it's interesting you are getting so worked up defending this idea — why is that? What cognitive bruise are you protecting?
- anon1385 9y ago>The rest of your argument hinges on the idea that 80mil people are terribly stupid No more stupid than 60m people in Germany or 40m people in Italy or 10m people in Chile or 4m people in Haiti or 30m people in the Philippines or 7m people in Zimbabwe or 20m people in Venezuela etc. It doesn't require a 'stupid' population to believe the propaganda of murderous regimes; it's something any group of people is susceptible to, as we have seen time and again at great cost.
- LV-426 9y ago> Calling someone you don't like a "fake account" (as someone has already hinted about me in this very comment section!) I don't know where someone hinted that you're a fake account, but you are certainly disingenuously passing yourself off as some kind of authority on what ordinary Filipinos think, when you don't even live in the Philippines, but a country thousands of miles away. This explains why your only evidence of "the entire population" favouring Duterte is a Youtube of people who like Duterte saying they like Duterte, and what some people allegedly told you when you visited the country. > even though they live in the country [...] who has probably never been in the Philippines? And why are you even getting so worked up and fanatical about this? Because you spent two weeks in Boracay? It's not your country - you live in South Africa - so why are you acting otherwise?
- RyanZAG 9y agoI spent a number of months there talking to people while doing remote work. It's a great place to visit - highly recommend it to anyone! As for why I'm posting: all it takes for evil to win is for good men to stay silent.
- foodislove 9y agoSo a foreigner who talks to some people while doing remote work is presenting himself as an authority on the views of people of said country. Well then, I've visited Cancun on a number of occasions. I can say for a fact, that all Mexicans drink Corona beer. What is baffling is how someone who has no idea what they are talking about, does nothing but make Trump like complaints about bias and how "everyone" likes the dictator etc etc. Troll
- e19293001 9y ago> Because you spent two weeks in Boracay? It's not your country Hey! I don't know him. I live in the Philippines and I believe in what he said.
- throwaway-hn123 9y agoI speak to a lot of Filipinos, probably way more than you do, and they are all disgusted by Duterte and ashamed that their President is, in effect, a murderer. Now what are you going to do?