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(Eagle News) — National Capital Region Police Office chief Guillermo Eleazar on Wednesday, Jan. 30, dismissed as a hoax a social media post that said an SM branch would be bombed by the Abu Sayyaf if mall officials did not pay $15 million. According to Eleazar, the message which came from a certain Kyla Avonahceh, was “obviously too casual and carefree in the face of a very serious and extremely scary threat.” He recalled what he […]
(Eagle News)–The Manila Police District on Wednesday, Sept. 19, said reports of a bomb in the University of Sto. Tomas turned out to be a hoax. MPD spokesperson Carlos Magno said this was as of 11:40 a.m., after members of the explosives and ordnance division conducted a panelling of the campus. This was after members of the UST community reported a text circulating saying there was a bomb in the area. The text message read: […]
By: Mark Christofer Manalo I do not spend much time on social media. The utility of sharing personal information and pictures of one’s lunch escape me. But in the few times I checked out Facebook, I was greeted with two blatantly false stories that were passed around as “health news.” And by blatantly false, I mean that in an easily-disproven, just-a-Google-search-away, top-search-results kind of way. The first one had a ring of truth […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (October 24) – Many Facebook privacy hoaxes have circulated the internet for the past few years and this “new” hoax ain’t nothing really new. Yet, people still believe these messages. The message was: Many netizens believed this message and reposted it on their wall, thus resulting into more circulation for the hoax and creating a near endless cycle of self-propagation. The same Facebook privacy hoax has been around since November 2012. Facebook already addressed […]
