As a pope of the contemporary world, one issue he will address will be migration, a preferential apostolate of the Catholic Church. Migrants migrate to escape conditions of poverty, religious and political persecution, and wars. Migration is never a crime. What will his papacy do to embrace the humanity of migrants and refugees? As a son of migrants and of Afro-Creole culture, Leo XIV is a groundbreaking pope.
AI-manipulated videos and audio have emerged as a growing disinformation tactic ahead of Monday’s midterm elections—more frequent, more targeted and more deceptive. Despite their rise, simpler manipulations, or shallowfakes, remain the more widespread threat, continuing to dominate the misinformation landscape flagged by fact-checkers.
How much is the going rate?An incumbent candidate for Congress has doubled the cash given by his opponent to ensure victory from P500 to P1,000 per vote, many recipients attest. For some, “the vote is given to the highest bidder,” says one, who refused to be named.
The Marcos gold story has since gone viral on Chinese online platforms and has been amplified in the Philippines by supporters of detained former president Rodrigo Duterte, including vlogger Claire Eden Contreras (aka Maharlika) and lawyer Harry Roque. Both have used the allegations to again attack President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and revive rumors about his alleged drug use.
Cardinal Tagle’s former teacher: Tagle is not a risk-taker. He prefers to stay in the safety of his residence, dishing out platitudes rather than engaging in shaping the political discourse of the nation. He strives to be a friend of everybody and longs for their approval in return.
The tribute was grand as it was solemn with La Aunor’s flag-draped coffin resting on a bed of white flowers with her National Artist medallion blending with the colors of the Philippine flag.
The death of Ate Guy has filled our social media feeds with exactly the history that her Noranians live off, and it is one that too many of us failed to appreciate while she was alive, more focused as we were on the controversies and issues.
The DDS have become clones of Duterte’s grandiose narcissism and congenital lying, a minority that is noisy, yet a minority nevertheless. They may not be a danger to immediate destabilization; they are a danger to truth telling. Kill the truth and the nation dies.
Dr. Junice Melgar, executive director of Likhaan Center for Women’s Health: Former president Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest and detention for crimes against humanity must include his offenses against Filipino women for shaming and degrading them when he was in power.
Financial rewards are likewise massive since Eala’s semifinal stint already assures the two-time Siklab Youth Sports Awardee a paycheck of US$332,160 (roughly P19 million) and could bump up to $597,890 (P34M) upon reaching the finals by defeating Pegula on Friday.She could end up fattening her bank account by $1,124,380 (P64.5M) once Eala goes all the way to seize the title, a mammoth vault from her total earnings of $32,000 this season.
