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Weaponizing Facebook
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer /December 10, 2021 Netizens might describe it as long overdue, but Facebook (FB, now rebranded as Meta) has finally acknowledged its role in enabling “multiple human rights risks” in the Philippines, and has vowed to “stop coordinated campaigns” that manipulate public debate on its apps—especially in the face of the country’s…
‘Lutong macau’?
Philippine Daily Inquirer / November 02, 2021 Concerned citizens filed last month with the Ombudsman a criminal complaint charging Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi, billionaire Udenna Corp. CEO Dennis Uy, and other officials with graft for their role in what they deem as the questionable sale of the majority stake in the Malampaya deepwater gas-to-power project …
Ludicrous Charges Totally Devoid of Legal and Factual Basis
Yesterday’s Pride protest in Mendiola had 20 LGBTQIA+ rights activists and supporters arrested and detained by police operatives for supposed violations of the Public Assembly Law (BP 880) and Article 151 of the Revised Penal Code on “Resistance and Disobedience to a Person in Authority or the Agents of such Person” in relation to RA…
WANTED: An Independent Senate
By Jose Lorenzo Lim Midterm elections have always been crucial for any incumbent, as results will either affirm or reject the programs and policies so far of the ruling party. The 2019 midterm elections, however, appears to be different, as it happens at the heels of the Duterte administration’s implementation of harshest neoliberal economic policies…
Anti-red ‘star witness’ told: Don’t continue selling your soul to the devil
By: Christia Marie Ramos – Reporter, INQUIRER.net /November 24, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — “Don’t continue selling your soul to the devil.” Lawyer Jobert Pahilga issued this advice to Jeffrey Celiz, who earlier surfaced as the security sector’s “star witness” in the Senate investigation on the alleged red-tagging by military officials. “We should examine the person…
