SASS ROGANDO SASOT
18 April 2025
Friday
In 2023, the CIA-overt organization National Endowment for Democracy (NED) released a report listing bloggers in the Philippines who they say are pro-China. USAid also released another one in 2024. Again, I am listed. The second one, I was mentioned six times, more than anyone on the list. The NED report names me as actually the most influential, along with Thinking Pinoy. Of course, Thinking Pinoy is now in the UK.
Rappler and Vera Files are the ones who kept pushing the "fake news peddler" narrative. Guess who were funding them?
All of the harassment that I am experiencing right now would end if I would just follow the path of Thinking Pinoy. He hinted at it before in his livestream in January 2024.
As I told you, I could just walk into a U.S. Embassy right now and tell them I will be pro-US and all of these would end. But I would rather endure this than to sell out my integrity.
I have been singing the same tune for over a decade. And it's already the same length of time that they are trying to destroy me. A person who is speaking because they are paid will not endure the same thing I am enduring. In fact, those who are paid to speak can easily be outbought by a higher bidder. That's a fact of life.
So first, they tried to ignore. When they cannot ignore me, they ridiculed me, hoping that its psychological toll would drive me to silence. When that didn't work, they tried to buy me. When I couldn't be bought, they harassed me. The harassment started even when I was still in the Netherlands. I would write about it one day -- with full documentation. Then when that didn't work, they will now move to physically eliminate me...because there's nothing that could silence you other than snuffing you out of existence.
In the past 90 days, my content has been displayed on the screen of FB users for 567,651,839, with an engagement of 83,707,932. That is an engagement rate of 14.74%. And they know this as this can easily be accessed by those doing social media analytics.
Engagement rates on social media platforms like Facebook vary depending on industry, content type, and audience. According to general benchmarks, average engagement rates on Facebook typically range from 1% to 5% for most brands. A rate above 10% is considered exceptional, indicating highly engaging content or a very active audience. And given that I only have 612K followers, my content is reaching a broader audience. And this is all organic.
This is why they want me gone. Silenced. Yet no matter how they try, their tactics are not working. No matter how they attach the terms "fake news peddler" or "disinformation peddler" to my name, it is NOT working as my reach kept on expanding, exponentially. Hence, they will resort to the final solution. What doesn't kill you will make you stronger.
