Fake News.
By rakski
@rakski (112925)
Philippines
September 10, 2018 6:49am CST
Hello everyone.
Before the weekend last week, a news about a super typhoon became viral here in the Philippines. It was a video of CNN International informing the public there will be a super typhoon hitting the Philippines. If you will not listen very carefully, you will easily panic. But when you listen over again, you will notice that the video is from 2014 and that super typhoon was typhoon Habagat.
I am so annoyed at this people who really went out of their way to create this issue. Why spread fake news? 
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
11 Sep 18
HABAGAT is not a typhoon. it is monsoon rains. i also think the super typhoon is not a fake news. check the hourly monitoring of the weather bureau and you will notice the direction of the typhoon leading to northern Luzon and Batanes area.
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@rakski (112925)
• Philippines
11 Sep 18
Oh yes, Habagat is monsoon rains. Last week there is a viral video going around facebook. when you listen carefully you will know it is typhoon hagupit (2014). So I checked PAG-ASA's website instead so I get typhoon Mangkhut (local name typhoon Ompong). BUt now in FB, they are saying that Magkhut is already gone and it is typhoon Neneng that will be the super typhoon well in fact typhoon Neneng might be out of PAR today.
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@rakski (112925)
• Philippines
12 Sep 18
@ridingbet yes, that is precisely what I know too and most people in FB are talking of Neneng as the super typhoon. Really they suspended the class til Saturday there? Well, it is better safe and prepared. Stay safe
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
12 Sep 18
@rakski yes, neneng is already gone but ompong is still in the ocean and there is a possibility it will enter PAR anytime this afternoon that is why classes are suspended until on Saturday
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
11 Sep 18
Fake news is trendy these days In India it is main stream (lol)
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
12 Sep 18
I also got fooled by that video forwarded by the brother-in-law of my wife. Some people really have no better things to do.
@everwonderwhy (6697)
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10 Sep 18
I don't watch CNN. They're not trustworthy, in my opinion. Nevertheless, it's not surprising that CNN has gone so low in morals and they have deprived themselves from upholding honest and ethical journalism.
You've done well in investigating about CNN's fake typhoon hoax.
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@simplfred (20608)
• Philippines
10 Sep 18
There's really a storm coming to my friend.
The state weather bureau on Monday advised residents in certain parts of Luzon to prepare for Typhoon Mangkhut, which will be locally named “Ompong” when it enters the Philippine area of responsibility by Wednesday afternoon.
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@rakski (112925)
• Philippines
10 Sep 18
@simpifred @Strawberry18 Yes, I know that. I have a post about that before this. But before this, last week, there was a viral video about a super typhoon.
Hello everyone. I just read a message in my family group chat. According to weather bureau, the weather system monitoring a possible super typhoon in the...
@Kasjnak (4492)
• Romania
10 Sep 18
Maaaaaan, I so hate fake news! It seems like people enjoy telling all kind of lies, they find that amusing. Of course, there are some that make money out of that and even worse, they use them for propaganda. I hate this, it makes it difficult to see what is true and what is not.
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@rsa101 (37966)
• Philippines
12 Sep 18
My wife received that clip as well in her messenger and had the same reaction as you. She was kind of annoyed why send an old file. Although there is indeed a super typhoon coming in our way but it is entirely different from the one that hot us previously. I also saw the same videos but the tsunami that hit Japan sometime in 2011. They were trying to scare people as well by the way the video clip was organized and some of the video came from different places already.
