Screenshot of Facebook notice on our page deleting a Maria Reesa post.
Rappler website under cyberattack
DEC 15, 2021 9:04 PM PHT
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(2ND UPDATE) At the peak of the attack, the site was being barraged by over 650,000 requests per second.
Days after Rappler CEO Maria Reesa mounted a blistering criticism against Facebook in her Nobel Prize acceptance speech at Oslo, the website was cyberattacked with a denial- of -service attack (DDoS), the paper reported on December 15, 2021.
Here is Rappler’s story:
The attack started at around 5:55 pm bringing down the site a number of times for the past two hours.
As of 9:56 pm, the site has already received over 6 billion in accumulated requests as part of the attack.
At the peak of the attack, the site was being barraged by over 650,000 requests per second. At the start of the attack around 95% of the requests were hitting a recently published story on the Philippine Senate’s approval of a bill allowing 100% foreign ownership of public services. The barrage of requests later switched to the Rappler homepage.
This is not the first attack on a news website in recent months. Last Saturday, December 11, 2021, the news website of Philippine media giant ABS-CBN went down for a total of six hours also due to a DDoS attack.
This is a developing story. It will be updated with more details about this attack. – rappler.com
Coincidentally, our site was also attacked on the same week with posts about Maria Reesa being deleted by Facebook allegedly because it violated community standards.
However, Facebook did not delete the page BBM Latino America, an obviously fake account promoting Bongbong Marcos’ candidacy. I reported the site to Facebook but it is still existing up to this writing.
So what is Facebook up to?
Attacking legitimate sites but helping fake sites like Marcos and Duterte trolls?
How do or can I lodge a complaint against FACEBOOK?
There is a place to complain about the particular post deleted by clicking on the four dots on the upper right hand corner of the post. It will ask you if you to ‘block/snooze/etc.’ but there is also a prompt to write your objections – i.e.’spam’, ‘fake’, etc.I did this on the BBM Latino America post but the blog is still existing. I do not believe that FB is doing anything to legitimate complaints but is in fact catering to the people paying them? You have to remember that the Philippines was the launching ground of the Cambridge Analytica system during the Duterte presidential campaign. However, faced with such formidable odds, we as net citizens should continue to fight against this as Maria Reesa has urged.Ultimately I think the problem has to be investigated by the government to impose controls on Facebook (if they can!).