18TH CFBJ ASSEMBLY: Reporters’ group to wage war vs fake news

Correspondent, Rosalie O. Abatayo 09/19/2018

A NEW leadership has emerged among media workers in Cebu and it is headed towards eradicating a strong adversary: fake news. The Cebu Federation of Beat Journalists (CFBJ), the umbrella organization of media workers in Cebu, inducted…

Lapu drafts case against Cebu Flash Report

Norman Mendoza 11/29/2017

The City Legal Office of Lapu-Lapu City is now drafting a case against the administrators of Cebu Flash Report (CFR). CFR, a Facebook page that publishes news and information, has been under fire since it posted information…

PNP asked: What happened to Cebu Flash Report case?

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo, Steffie Kyle Nolido 11/10/2017

ADMINISTRATORS of Cebu Flash Report (CFR) are not yet off the hook for a Facebook post it made last July 2017 which claimed that a bomb was placed near a store in Barangay Basak in Lapu-Lapu City.…

Flush report

07/09/2017

While purveyors of fake news are best left ignored to their devices in order not to gratify and further bolster their self-confidence and arrogance, there comes a time when their irresponsibility and sheer presence simply cannot be…

MAO BA?

Christian Orellano 07/07/2017

FINDING HUMOR WHEN THE EARTH TREMBLES If you couldn’t believe that a massive 6.5-magnitude earthquake has a light note, you have to read these netizens’ hilarious take to the trembling of the earth’s crust, masking their fear…

Investigation to identify source of fake news almost complete

Calvin Cordova, Norman V. Mendoza 07/07/2017

The investigation meant to unmask the creators of the controversial Facebook page is 80 percent complete. Chief Insp. Leo Dofiles, head of the anti-cybercrime unit of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), said they are…

Cebu-based media practitioner under probe for bomb scare

Calvin D. Cordova 07/06/2017

A Cebu-based media practitioner was one of the “persons of interest” invited for questioning by police in relation to a Facebook group’s erroneous post last Tuesday claiming that a bomb was planted near a stall in Lapu-Lapu…

Girl who cursed IEC gets threats

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/01/2016

AFTER receiving several threats, the 29-year-old woman who cursed the recently concluded 51st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) for causing traffic congestion has come out and apologized for what she did. “Jane” (real name withheld upon her and…

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