HEADS UP: Has Candidate Substitution Become a Mockery of the Elections? (Oct. 21)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, Oct. 21:

2022 ELECTIONS

• Who are you calling mockery? We explain candidate substitution in Philippine elections and how using it as a campaign strategy can either work or backfire.
• This new Facebook and Instagram filter from Comelec will allow voters to bring with them Jose Rizal and Andres Bonifacio as they register.

WEATHER EXPLAINED

• La Niña is back for the second straight year, PAGASA said, and with its onset in mid-October, the 'ber months' of 2021 could be wetter than usual. 

PIXEL WORLD

• The Verge reports that Facebook is planning to rebrand the company under a new name as CEO Mark Zuckerberg looks to the metaverse.
• LYKA said it would open a Philippine office and register as a payment operator to rexovle issues with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
• The Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones are official. Here’s why they are Mountain View’s boldest challenge yet to the iPhone from the folks at Cupertino.
• Pope Francis is urging Catholics to download the Vatican’s relaunched Click to Pray app for a digital channel to talk to God.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The DOJ is reviewing thousands of drug war cases after initial findings challenged the police narrative that suspects fought back or nanlaban.
• From the International Space Station, Metro Manila at night is a serene sight to behold. Check out this photo from the International Space Station.
• For a “happy Christmas”, the government is raising its daily covid vaccination target to 1.5 million.
• Some 400,000 health frontliners have finally received their special risk allowance for fighting the pandemic. That’s P5,000 per month.
• Phase 2 of COVID vaccination for minors will see at least one hospital per city and municipality in Metro Manila administering the jabs.
• The DOH logged 3,656 new COVID cases yesterday, the lowest since March.
• All cemeteries will be closed from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 to avoid COVID superspreaders when Filipinos mark All Souls and All Saints Day.
• The QC Memorial Circle will allow visits from minors, provided that they are accompanied by their parent or guardian.
• The preserved remains of the last captive-bred tamaraw, Kali, has returned home to Mindoro.
• A new art installation in New York City lets visitors experience what it’s like to walk on air, from a vantage point that’s 1,000 feet high.
• Here are the world leaders who confirmed attendance or declined to go to the United Nations COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland.
• Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has turned down a tongue-in-cheek award as “Oldie of the Year” because she said she did not meet the criteria.
• China has lit the Olympic flame for the 2022 Winter Games.