Pinoy Pie

MindaNews / 29 June 2026 – The Internet these past few weeks is filled with news of grief and horror. Students shooting classmates, and two basketball prospects drowning during a team training. These tragedies draw out sympathy, but also spark outrage and calls for punishment. It has turned netizens into their own commentators and defectives, este, detectives, drawing conclusions even before the investigations happen. Because of the Internet the Philippines has bred our own version of the FBI – Facebook Investigators. On the Tacloban school shooting, it was learned that one of the guns used by the teenage shooter belonged to his auntie, a police officer, but they still blame Senator Kiko Pangilinan. On the student athletes’ deaths, it is a fact that they died from drowning, but our Facebook Investigators insist it was hazing conspired by teammates wanting to drown one particular athlete.  Never mind if all those same teammates nearly drowned because...