Controversial vlogger Nas Yassin, the creator behind Nas Daily fired back against a social entrepreneur who accused him of having ‘unpleasant, mone-making attitude’.
“I have also kept my silence for 2 years out of respect to you. But I can’t let you share falsehoods on the Internet for free,” he told Louise Mabulo in a Facebook post.
Mabulo, has been recognized internationally with The Cacao Project. It aims to provide farmers in Northern Luzon with alternative crops—particularly cacao—and training to help them make agriculture a more sustainable and dignified trade.
The social entrepreneur said she met Nas two years ago. She said that Nas came to her to film her project for his vlog.
Mabulo said that Nas has an unpleasant attitude.
“I watched him imitate and mock the local accent and language, vocalising Tagalog-sounding syllabic phrases saying it sounded stupid. He repeatedly said that the people of my hometown ‘poor,” she said.
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“I was very inspired by your story. In fact, I was so inspired by what you achieved that I flew in from Singapore to the Province in the Philippines just to SUPPORT YOU,”
Nas said.
Nas said that he helped Mabulo in trying to tell the world about her story.
“By the way, no other media did that. They just report from their fancy offices. But we wanted to go the extra mile for you,”
he said.
“To my biggest sadness and surprise, your story was not true on the ground. Once we arrived at your plantation, once we saw the village and talked to the farmers, we came to the conclusion that there is no story here. That the awards on the Internet are just that…awards,” he said.
“Our investigation has made it clear that your story in the media is false. And that there are no “200 farmers” that you work with, and there are no Cacao plantations that you don’t personally profit from,”
Nas added.
Nas said that they had to pack up and leave because I will never ever put Fake News on Nas Daily.
“I was so sad because we have invested tens of hours to support you. When we told you in person that we believe your story is not true, you understood us and you bid us farewell. We thanked you for your time and your hospitality and we went back to the airport. In fact, we took nice pictures with your family before we left,” he said.
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“I flew back to Singapore disappointed. But of course, I didn’t want to hurt you. I would never want to do that. I flew in to support you in the first place,” Nas added.
Nas told Mabulo that he has two pieces of advice for her:
1) Be truthful about your work. The Cacao Project is not as truthful as the media says it is.
2) Do not share online falsehoods. That is borderline illegal. Everything you said is with malicious intent and it is clearly not how I speak. We have 5 years of evidence to back that up. 40% of my company is Filipino. Our actions back up our words.
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