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Sereno to SC: Junk quo warranto because SALN allegation not valid
Chief Justice Sereno says she will be able to prove in the Senate that she complied with the SALN law

PBA fines Arwind Santos P25,000 for Game 3 comments, flagrant foul
'Kaya parang nahihirapan kami bantayan kasi lima lang 'yung kalaban, pero nagiging walo,' says Arwind Santos after San Miguel's Game 3 loss to Ginebra
Case vs Trillanes, CPP vs Duterte, Trump on climate change | Evening wRap
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SC orders government to answer petition vs martial law
(UPDATED) The court en banc declares the petition sufficient in form and substance

Social media users advised to be critical of trolls
‘You have to engage them and fight back,’ says veteran journalist Ed Lingao at Rappler’s ‘Truth, Trust, and Democracy’ forum

Freedom House report, Maguindanao airstrike, Trump on U.S.-PH ties | Evening wRap
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Instagram introduces comment controls, kindness initiative
Instagram's new comment controls allow public accounts to choose who can comment on posts, whether it's everyone, groups of people, people you follow, or your account's followers
'Your wife is a pig': Commenters bash Jeff Horn, pregnant wife on social media
Angry fans target the Australian boxer and his wife hurling invectives and racial abuse on social media

Calida invokes technicality to have martial law petitions dismissed
Solicitor General Jose Calida will defend President Duterte in the SC oral arguments against the 3 petitions opposing his declaration of martial law in Mindanao
SolGen comment good for Napoles PDAF cases – lawyer
Napoles lawyer Stephen David evades questions about his link to President Duterte

Iguodala fined over racially charged comments
The Golden State Warriors guard is fined 10 000

Norway 'anti-troll' site quizzes readers before commenting
The quiz gauges whether the reader actually read the article or not

Pacquiao regrets comparing gays to animals, but stands firm on belief
The Filipino boxing icon turned politician admits he made a mistake by claiming gay people were worse than animals

The toxic life of a social media producer
Everyone needs to understand that words do have power If you re told someone hopes you get killed it will scar you

Social media users react to #NoPlaceForHate campaign
Some welcome the NoPlaceForHate campaign as a tool to remove below the belt comments on Facebook threads but some claim it completely prevents them from sharing their thoughts

#AnimatED: War has come to our conversations
Whatever happened to healthy exchange of views?

#NoPlaceForHate: Baro a pagalagadan iti Rappler comments thread
Alaenmi manen daytoy a gundaway a mangtagikua iti espasyo ti Rappler kas nasimbeng a lugar para kadagiti netizens Ditoy maibaga yo amin ti ania man a naguneg yo nga awan ti panagbuteng wenno panagamak a mabastos kayo

#NoPlaceForHate: Ang mga kausaban sa Rappler comments thread
Diri sa Rappler dapat bation mo nga luwas ka mupadayag sa imong kaugalingon nga wala y kahadlok nga atakihon ug tabangan sa mga anonymous commenters nga nag apas nga pahilumon ka ug paamohun

#NoPlaceForHate: Bagong patakaran sa Rappler comments thread
Muli naming aangkinin ang espasyo ng Rappler bilang matiwasay na lugar para sa netizens Dito masasabi ninyo ang inyong saloobin nang walang takot na malapastangan o makuyog

#NoPlaceForHate: Change comes to Rappler's comments thread
On Rappler you should feel safe to express yourself without fear of being attacked and swarmed by an army of anonymous commenters who seek to silence and tame

PH weightlifter Nestor Colonia shuts down basher on Facebook
Filipino Olympian Nestor Colonia slays in the comments section in response to criticism

Will vocal Duterte supporters read this article from start to finish?
All we are saying is give reading comprehension a chance

Pia Wurtzbach defends Jessy Mendiola over body-shaming remarks
Confident Filipinas should be celebrated not condemned Pia says

Instagram ramps up fight against harassment
Some users are testing a feature that lets them filter comments or turn off the option to comment on certain posts

Lea Salonga defends Jessy Mendiola over body-shaming comments
Sexy has nothing to do with the outer shell and all to do with what s in you Lea says

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan draws ire for 'rape' analogy
When I used to walk out of the ring after the shoot I used to feel like a raped woman I couldn t walk straight says the 50 year old actor

Twitter moves to curb nastiness at Periscope
A new tool lets viewers of Periscope videos quickly report comments that they perceive to be abusive

Heavyweight champ Fury sparks fresh row with rape, anti-Semitic rant
The British boxer also suggests anyone who disagreed with him was likely to have been brainwashed by all the Zionist Jewish people who own all the banks all the papers all the TV stations

Baseball: Schilling fired by ESPN over transgender comments
The analyst and former Major League Baseball pitcher loses his job over a controversial Facebook post


Indian Wells chief quits over comments about women players
2nd UPDATE Raymond Moore quits after coming under fire for saying women s tennis ride s on the coat tails of the men

Indonesia quake, sanctions vs N. Korea, Manny Pacquiao | 12PM wRap
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Pacquiao refuses to back down on gay slurs
What I am saying is right I mean I am just stating the truth what the Bible says says Manny Pacquiao

Gay boxer calls Pacquiao 'ignorant' over anti-LGBT comments
Orlando Cruz the first openly gay boxer says he respected Pacquiao but now feels nothing after Pacquiao s comments towards gays

ISIS, Nike terminates Pacquiao deal, Zika response plan | 12PM wRap
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Ex-sponsor Wonderful Pistachios distances from Manny Pacquiao
Wonderful Pistachios is not currently affiliated with Manny Pacquiao nor do his views align with ours the company says

Openly gay ex-NBA player slams Pacquiao for same-sex union comments
Jason Collins who came out as gay in 2013 uses his Twitter account to call Manny Pacquiao a bigot

Mayweather on Pacquiao's gay comments: 'Let people live their lives'
Floyd Mayweather Jr tells TMZ We should let people live their lives the way they want to live their lives as Manny Pacquiao deals with the backlash of his comments

Facebook gets News Feed caching on 2G, offline commenting
Facebook s new viewing mechanism is expected to take the place of a never ending loading screen

#Proudnotproud: Exposing our collective hypocrisy
The author explores the double standards hypocrisy and racism of Filipinos

Law, debate needed to end corporal punishment in PH homes
Despite the global movement to end all corporal punishment of children the Philippines still remains among the many countries that do not ban it at home

Media perversion? Palace defends Aquino's Vice Ganda interview
Malacañang says the President s interview with comedian Vice Ganda showed a lighter side of the country s leader

Netizens: Support, don't stereotype teachers
Teachers should be supported and not ridiculed netizens say

Social media: Space for empty rants?
It is time to bring back the more apt and productive debate arena where the Filipino rants less and argues more

Facebook rolls out sticker comments
When words just aren t enough you can now use stickers to comment as well

Ramon Bautista declared persona non grata in Davao City
There is a need to make Mr Bautista understand that as a visitor of a place he should be mindful of decency and propriety the resolution said

New video of Justin Bieber using N-word surfaces
The video emerged following an apology for a previous clip where he was shown making racist punchlines

Moscow demands 'official explanation' for Charles remarks
Prince Charles alleged comparison of Russian president Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler are not worthy of a future British monarch says a Russian official

What's the magic word behind popular Facebook posts?
Find out which one word can pluck your posts out of relative obscurity and push them to the top of the Facebook news feed

White House: No comment on Bieber deportation petition
The US government decides to keep mum on the pop star s issues
