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At times, Friendster has been the most visited website in the Philippines, as well as in Indonesia, according to web tracking site Alexa. [8] David Jones, vice president for global marketing of Friendster, said that "the biggest percentage of (their site's) users is from the Philippines, clocking in with 39 percent of the site's traffic."
Between April 2021 and January 2022, 34 cockfight enthusiasts (locally called sabungero; plural mga sabungero) from areas of Luzon, Philippines went missing. [1] Of the missing, 19 are from Laguna, six from Manila, another six from Batangas, and two from Bulacan. They have been referred to by the media as the missing sabungeros. [2] [3] [4]
Residents gather on a street in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana on Dec. 8, 2024, after Syrian rebels said that President Bashar Assad had fled the country. / Credit: LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images
January 4 – President Duterte signs Republic Act No. 11510, institutionalizing the alternative learning system (ALS). [2] [3]January 18 – The Department of National Defense announces its unilateral termination of its 1989 accord with the University of the Philippines which took effect three days earlier over claims that the New People's Army is recruiting members in the universities' campuses.
In mid September 2021, The Wall Street Journal began publishing articles on Facebook based on internal documents from unknown provenance. Revelations included reporting of special allowances on posts from high-profile users ("XCheck"), subdued responses to flagged information on human traffickers and drug cartels, a shareholder lawsuit concerning the cost of Facebook (now Meta) CEO Mark ...
February 4. The International Astronomical Union names an asteroid 7431 Jettaguilar in honor of Jose Francisco Aguilar, a medical doctor and amateur astronomer. [12]The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation places three members of Kingdom of Jesus Christ on its most wanted list, among them its founder Apollo Quiboloy, accused of sex trafficking.
Facebook was blocked in Vietnam for two weeks in May 2016 due to protest of dissidents. [101] Vietnam Facebook users total about 52 million and is a vital tool for their day to day use. However, the government is not accountable to the people which causes abuse of censorship in Vietnam. [102]
CNBC reported that the outage was the worst experienced by Facebook since 2008. [21] During the day of the outage, shares in the company dropped by nearly 5% and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's wealth fell by more than $6 billion. [21] [22] [23] According to a report produced by Fortune and Snopes, Facebook lost at least $60 million in ...