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Fake news in the Philippines refers to the general and widespread misinformation or disinformation in the country by various actors. It has been problematic in the Philippines where social media and alike plays a key role in influencing topics and information ranging from politics, health, belief, religion, current events, aid, lifestyle, elections and others.
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
Alice Leal Guo[ 3 ] (Chinese : 郭華萍[ b ]; pinyin : Guō Huápíng) is a businesswoman and former politician in the Philippines who served as the mayor of the municipality of Bamban, Tarlac, from June 30, 2022, to August 13, 2024. Guo was accused of being a Chinese spy [ 6 ] and also faced investigations over her alleged involvement in ...
AGB Nielsen Philippine TV ratings controversy. A legal conflict among AGB Nielsen Philippines, GMA Network, Inc. and ABS-CBN Corporation in the Philippines for an alleged television ratings breach that occurred in Western Visayan cities of Bacolod and Iloilo, has been ongoing since the final quarter of 2007-2008.
On July 22, 2015, a video was uploaded to YouTube featuring Felix Nathaniel "Angel" Manalo, the brother to nominal INC leader Eduardo V. Manalo and a former general manager of Global Expansion Media Television (a terrestrial TV station broadcasting the INC's programs, now called INCTV), along with his mother, Cristina "Tenny" Villanueva Manalo, the widow of Eraño G. Manalo. [8]
Insignia of the Order of National Artists. The 2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy refers to the controversial proclamation as National Artists of the Philippines of four individuals via the Presidential prerogative of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, when the four had not been nominated by the selection committee, composed of representatives from National Commission for Culture and ...
The Philippine National Broadband Network controversy (also referred to as the NBN–ZTE deal or NBN–ZTE mess) involved allegations of corruption in the awarding of a US$329 million construction contract to Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE for the proposed government-managed National Broadband Network (NBN). The contract with ZTE was ...
ABS-CBN broadcast franchise, granted on March 30, 1995, expired on May 4 without a renewal, 2020. National Telecommunications Commission issued a cease and desist order on ABS-CBN, effectively ceasing broadcast operations on May 5. ABS-CBN Corporation filed petitions before the Supreme Court of the Philippines on May 7, seeking to nullify the ...