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Graphika's Melanie Smith also said the large majority of the content shared by pages taken down was political in nature. “. In our categorization of content and narratives shared by the network, we found that 46.2 % of the pages shared content explicitly supporting President Duterte as a politician, and the second largest category (27.7%) shared news articles that paint the Duterte administration and the government writ large in a positive light.”

It is important to Duterte that Bong Go will be the senatorial contest topnotcher in the May 2016 election because he interprets it as the power of his endorsement which he thinks he can extend up to 2022.

“My office ‘s independent and impartial preliminary examination into the situation in the Philippines continues.”

Last 17 May 2018, the Philippines deposited with the United Nations its written notification of withdrawal from the Rome Statue on the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute). This is pursuant to Article 127 of the Rome Statute which also states that the withdrawal takes effect a year after.

Pres. Duterte was into his “I will kill you” element again during the PDP-Laban campaign rally at Negros Occidental last Friday. He was talking, as usual, about his campaign against illegal drugs.

In front of an impressionable audience, Pres. Duterte usually gets carried away with his story-telling and says things that are false and vulgar.

One of the reasons that will make the International Criminal Court decide to exercise jurisdiction over alleged extra-judicial killings committed under the Duterte administration is when they see that the government is “unable or unwilling” to prosecute the crimes. It is called the principle of complementarity.

The list of alleged CPP-NPA members prepared by unidentified sources delivered during an event last Friday in Cagayan de Oro reminds us that the old form of disinformation is still being done and it’s viciousness has not diminished a bit.

Early last week, fellow Malaya columnist JB Baylon posted this shout out in his Facebook wall: After DU30, Sarah Accept it. Sorry na lang for those who sucked up hoping for an endorsement. She’s the “term extension”

Jofti Villena, Project Manager of the Bloomberg Initiative for¬ Global Road Safety – Legal Development Programme (BIGRS-LDP)

Pres. Duterte is not lending his political clout to convicted plunderers Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla.

It’s the authorities who can now decide what I can cover and where to cover it.