Rappler is a mouthpiece for local and foreign interest groups

You give Rappler way too much credit by comparing it to Snap or relating it with big data analysis. Rappler exists online but no way is it a TECHNOLOGY company like Snap. Silicon Valley investors are willing to pour money into unprofitable tech companies like Snap because they see value in the proprietary technology being developed by such companies. Rappler has nothing of the sort.

Rappler is just a glorified blog. Even their pathetic mood meter is useless for big data analysis because it doesn’t even collect info from a large enough base to warrant use of the term BIG data. Analyzing emoticons on Facebook is a lot more useful than that thing.

Rappler is a mouthpiece for local and foreign interest groups, that’s all that it is. It’s a business model that has existed since newspapers were invented. You invest or donate, and your agenda gets promoted (or your enemies get destroyed) under the guise of journalism. In a way, Rappler was right to put “other monetary intermediary” as their industry classification. That says it all about what their true nature of business is: they’re just a bunch of media mercenaries collecting money to spread propaganda.

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