Inquirer, nag post ng fake news

One of the influential print media in the Philippines, Philippine Daily Inquirer, at least in its website, posted a news, November 25, 2019, that was not true at all. In short, it was fake news.

The news was about a report on the upcoming South Asian Games (not the Southeast Asian games), which Philippines is not a participant. The title went 'With just 6 days to go, venues still not ready for South Asian Games in Nepal.' If you search the news title it would still show in Google's search results, but when you click the link, it would redirect to the homepage of the sports section of the website. Obviously the news post was deleted. The news obviously want to deliberately inform the public that the government was irresponsible in handling the SEA Games, showing unfinished structures to be used in upcoming SEA games. The paper has mistaken the SEA games for the South Asian games.

It was the Binan City Information Office that caught the news that was fake. Inquirer.net then apologized for the erratum in its news reporting. The reason why the article was taken down is because of pure embarrassment.