Duterte echoes Imee Marcos’ line
In front of an impressionable audience, Pres. Duterte usually gets carried away with his story-telling and says things that are false and vulgar.
In front of an impressionable audience, Pres. Duterte usually gets carried away with his story-telling and says things that are false and vulgar.
One of the reasons that will make the International Criminal Court decide to exercise jurisdiction over alleged extra-judicial killings committed under the Duterte administration is when they see that the government is “unable or unwilling” to prosecute the crimes. It is called the principle of complementarity.
The list of alleged CPP-NPA members prepared by unidentified sources delivered during an event last Friday in Cagayan de Oro reminds us that the old form of disinformation is still being done and it’s viciousness has not diminished a bit.
Early last week, fellow Malaya columnist JB Baylon posted this shout out in his Facebook wall:
After DU30, Sarah
Accept it.
Sorry na lang for those who sucked up hoping for an endorsement.
She’s the “term extension”
Jofti Villena, Project Manager of the Bloomberg Initiative for¬ Global Road Safety – Legal Development Programme (BIGRS-LDP)
Pres. Duterte is not lending his political clout to convicted plunderers Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla.
It’s the authorities who can now decide what I can cover and where to cover it.
The members and partners of the Consortium on Democracy and Disinformation strongly denounce the continuing harassment of Rappler editor Maria Ressa and the news organization she leads. Her arrest on February 13, 2019 is a betrayal of the guarantees of press freedom and freedom of expression enshrined in the Constitution. More, its callous execution is an indictment of a weakened justice system; its devious grounds a dangerous fabrication that affects not just journalists, but everyone.
Next month, March 17, the withdrawal of the Philippines from the Rome Statute, the founding treaty for the International Criminal Court, will take effect- one year after the Duterte government deposited its official notification with the United Nations Secretary-General in New York.
At the “Democracy and Disinformation” conference at the University of the Philippines Baguio, this curiosity-seeker came away with her “old-fashioned” views reinforced on the vital role of fact-checking in combating the spread of fake news in print and broadcast media, and more so in social media.