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It is really suspicious that the earliest reference I can find to deaths is https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/10/pepsis-number-fever/ from 2018, that most of the coverage of this is from the last week, and that contemporaneous sources like https://www.afr.com/politics/law-suits-and-riots-cap-pepsi-number-game-fizzer-19930729-k5hpw and https://www.csmonitor.com/1993/0818/18023.html talk about rallies and attacks (incl. a grenade attack) on trucks, but don't mention general riots (just 'outside Pepsi plants throughout the country') or deaths. Details which would definitely be newsworthy.
Not saying it's fake news, but I reckon it's a bunch of lazy journalists copying each other's work, who originally copied it from some guy's half remembered rendition.
https://www.philstar.com/cebu-news/2006/06/26/344000/sc-decides-finality-pepsi-349-case (used as a reference) in 2006 reported that "A Pepsi plant in Davao City was recently attacked by unidentified persons, who lobbed a grenade killing three persons". Not Manila, and not related to those events in the 1990s, yet it's used as a citation.
The result was: promoted by
The Squirrel Conspiracy (
talk) 06:42, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Created by Jpatokal ( talk). Self-nominated at 14:02, 16 June 2020 (UTC).
This Bloomberg story has a lot of additional detail that would be worth lookin at: [4] Jpatokal ( talk) 07:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Ugh number fever is the worst I heard the whole story fuck that shit 173.171.156.50 ( talk) 22:44, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
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It is really suspicious that the earliest reference I can find to deaths is https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/10/pepsis-number-fever/ from 2018, that most of the coverage of this is from the last week, and that contemporaneous sources like https://www.afr.com/politics/law-suits-and-riots-cap-pepsi-number-game-fizzer-19930729-k5hpw and https://www.csmonitor.com/1993/0818/18023.html talk about rallies and attacks (incl. a grenade attack) on trucks, but don't mention general riots (just 'outside Pepsi plants throughout the country') or deaths. Details which would definitely be newsworthy.
Not saying it's fake news, but I reckon it's a bunch of lazy journalists copying each other's work, who originally copied it from some guy's half remembered rendition.
https://www.philstar.com/cebu-news/2006/06/26/344000/sc-decides-finality-pepsi-349-case (used as a reference) in 2006 reported that "A Pepsi plant in Davao City was recently attacked by unidentified persons, who lobbed a grenade killing three persons". Not Manila, and not related to those events in the 1990s, yet it's used as a citation.
The result was: promoted by
The Squirrel Conspiracy (
talk) 06:42, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
Created by Jpatokal ( talk). Self-nominated at 14:02, 16 June 2020 (UTC).
This Bloomberg story has a lot of additional detail that would be worth lookin at: [4] Jpatokal ( talk) 07:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Ugh number fever is the worst I heard the whole story fuck that shit 173.171.156.50 ( talk) 22:44, 29 September 2023 (UTC)