HEADS UP: Top News Stories You Need to Know Today, April 20

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on the top news stories that you need to know today, April 20:

NEWS EXPLAINED

• What happens when you click ‘report’? You do your part in fighting a well-oiled fake news machine that threatens to disrupt the outcome of the May 9 elections.

ELECTION NEWS

• Bongbong Marcos said critics should not be surprised that voters embrace his “unity” platform, as he campaigned in the country’s most vote-rich province, Cebu.
• Manny Pacquiao does not support Isko Moreno’s call for fellow presidential candidate Leni Robredo to withdraw from the race.
• Presidential candidate Norberto Gonzales apologized to Robredo over what transpired during the joint press conference with Moreno and Sen. Panfilo Lacson.
• What backlash? Lacson said he and fellow candidates Moreno and Gonzales did not gang up on Robredo during their Easter Sunday press conference.
• Gunfire disrupted a meeting between presidential candidate Leody de Guzman and an indigenous peoples group in Bukidnon, leaving two people hurt.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Booster number two will be rolled out as early as the end of this week. Here’s what you need to know.
• Don’t buy P20 and P5 coins at a premium because they remain to be legal tender, not collectibles, the BSP advised the public.

TRENDING NEWS

• Redemption came in a history quiz for a PBB housemate who correctly identified three priests whose execution sparked the Philippine resistance against Spain as Gomburza instead of MaJoHa.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• President Rodrigo Duterte said rich countries responsible for the most greenhouse gasses should compensate the Philippines for climate change damage.
• A fan of Taylor Swift in her hometown has named a millipede after the Grammy-winning hitmaker.
• Philippine ambassador to China Chito Sta. Romana has died, the DFA said.
• A long lockdown has led neighbors to gossip on neighbors in Shanghai, leading to quarantine for non-COVID positive residents.
• The U.S. will host a global COVID Summit on May 12 to chart a way out of the pandemic.