VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Ressa NOT sentenced to 15 years for cyber libel
FB groups falsely claimed that Rappler CEO Maria Ressa has been sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment after the Court of Appeals (CA) affirmed her cyber libel conviction.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: De Lima NOT sentenced to prison for drug charges
The claim that Leila De Lima has been sentenced to prison is false.
Cyberlibel vs Maria Ressa has prescribed
Maria Ressa was convicted of the crime of libel for an article published on Feb. 19, 2014, which became the subject of a complaint filed on March 1, 2018. The complaint came four years and 10 days after the publication. The Court of Appeals ruled that the crime had not yet prescribed, citing Article 90, in relation to Article 25 of the Revised Penal Code (CA Decision p. 16-18). The Court of Appeals was guided by the Supreme Court First Division’s decision in the Wilbert Tolentino case.
When fake news made Maria Ressa an ‘Indonesian citizen’
The small office in coastal Mediterranean Spain that attends to Filipino migrants had asked me what my profession was. I said I was an opinion writer seeking the refuge of Europe from death threats in the Philippines. The Filipino across me immediately started a tirade that Nobel Peace Prize awardee Maria Ressa was not Filipino, but Indonesian. I was tempted to ask the man the names of Ressa’s Indonesian parents, but he was nowhere near to putting a period to his long diatribe. I myself did not know the truth. The man was successful in gaslighting me: I myself doubted if I really knew who Maria Ressa was. I was pounded into submissive silence.
IFCN congratulates Ressa on Nobel Peace Prize
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), an initiative connecting fact-checkers around the world, congratulated Maria Ressa, chief executive officer and president of online news network Rappler, for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Government officials, organizations congratulate Ressa for Nobel Peace Prize win
Vice President Leni Robredo and different organizations, both local and international, congratulated Rappler’s chief executive officer and president Maria Ressa for winning the much-coveted Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 8.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Foreign journo’s question to Ressa taken OUT OF CONTEXT
Sakur was only enumerating the “allegations” against the Filipino journalist.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Envoy DID NOT say the US has the ‘right’ to be obeyed by PH
The post twists the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines' words.
Court clears Rappler but convicts Ressa, ex-researcher of cyber libel
A Manila court convicted Rappler chief executive officer and executive editor Maria Ressa and its former writer-researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. for cyber libel and sentenced them to six months to six years in jail and fines of P400, 000 for moral and exemplary damages.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Website FALSELY reports as news SATIRE on Trump wanting to revoke Maria Ressa’s dual citizenship
The blog published it under its “Hot” and “Social” news section.
