By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter /INQUIRER.net /January 25, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — An international watchdog has urged the Senate of the Philippines to pass the Human Rights Defenders Act, which is seen to protect rights workers from harassment and extrajudicial killings (EJKs). According to the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, the…
By: Miguel R. Camus – Reporter / Philippine Daily Inquirer /January 25, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte once told Manuel Villar Jr. he would back the campaign supporter, billionaire, and former senator if he ran a second time for president. Villar, the head of a powerful political and business clan, is not seeking…
By: Daphne Galvez – Reporter / INQUIRER.net / January 24, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday said he has not seen any of the Yamashita and Tallano gold which have long been associated with his family. Marcos Jr., the son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., laughed at the…
Philstar.comJanuary 24, 2022 | 4:11pm MANILA, Philippines — Academics, civil society groups, and media outlets have once again pooled their fact-checking efforts to combat election-related disinformation ahead of the 2022 elections. Building on its earlier collaboration for the 2019 elections, Tsek.ph, a collaborative fact-checking project for the 2022 Philippines’ elections, relaunched its website Monday morning to…
Kristine Joy Patag – Philstar.comJanuary 24, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said that, if elected, he hopes to win over Martial Law survivors and critics of his father’s dictatorship with his sincerity and plans for the country while also maintaining that bringing up issues from the past will not lead anywhere. …
Disinformation, coordinated amplification, use of an extensive network of anonymously-managed pages and groups are part of the Marcos comeback playbook Nov 20, 2019, Gemma B. Mendoza MANILA, Philippines – Massive amounts of propaganda and targeted disinformation produced and amplified by an extensive network of websites, Facebook pages and groups, YouTube channels, and social media influencers…
Agence France-Presse / January 23, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — Twitter has suspended hundreds of accounts reportedly linked to supporters of Philippine presidential frontrunner Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., which the social media giant said had violated its rules on manipulation and spam. Marcos is drawing support from a massive social media campaign seeking to get him…
Kodao.org, January 18, 2022 Two bills approved by the House of Representatives (HOR) on January 17 earned nods from groups supporting their enactment and asked the Senate to immediately pass pending counterpart proposals. In separate statements on Monday, the group Karapatan lauded the passage of the bill giving protection to human rights defenders (HRDs) while…