Rappler
 Rappler  (News website, Censor)    | |
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| Formation | 2012 |
| Founder |  Maria Ressa |
| Headquarters | Philippines |
| Member of | World Movement for Democracy |
| Sponsored by | Facebook, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Google News Initiative, Internews, Media Development Investment Fund, National Endowment for Democracy, Omidyar Network |
Rappler is a Filipino online news website and "fact checker". Largely funded by CIA-close foundations, it was built up as a cog in the Big Tech censorship program under the guise of combating "fake news" in the Philippines. The founder, Maria Ressa, received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 to strengthen its prestige.
Own words
It was founded in 2012 by Maria Ressa, who received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her work, along with a group of fellow Filipino journalists as well as technopreneurs.
In 2016, Rappler began to be critical of the Rodrigo Duterte-led government of the Philippines, which had just taken office and its controversial war on drugs, after Rappler noticed a network of paid followers and dummy accounts on Facebook spreading fake news related to Duterte.[1]
On October 26, 2017, Rappler became a member of the Poynter Institute's International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Facebook then picked Rappler in April 2018 to be its Philippine partners on its worldwide "fact-checking" program<ref.http://verafiles.org/articles/vera-files-fact-sheet-facebooks-third-party-fact-checking-pr</ref>, thus become part of the online censorship apparatus.
Sponsors
| Event | Description |
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| The world's most popular social network, with over 1,000,000,000 users in 2014. | |
| Friedrich Naumann Foundation | |
| Google News Initiative | Google and the deep state buying domination over corporate media and creating tools to censor independent voices. |
| Internews | U.S. intelligence-linked organization to create and fund dependent journalists who report on the right things from the right angle. |
| Media Development Investment Fund | Fund financing a large number of "independent" news and information businesses around the world. Connected to the Open Society Foundations and other usual suspects. |
| National Endowment for Democracy | The "traditional intermediary of the CIA", promoting the US "national interest" abroad by financing groups and individuals. |
| Omidyar Network | Foundation owned by the the deep state-connected billionaire Pierre Omidyar, financing preferred NGOs |
