Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Thursday pushed for a measure that would require social media platforms to disclose the identity of "trolls" to curb the rising number of abuses done in the online community. Drilon, during the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision's...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima said the libel and cyberlibel charges that Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi had filed against some members of the press over their coverage of the controversial Malampaya gas field buyout were frivolous and baseless. De Lima likened the suits filed by Cusi against the...
Senator Manny Pacquiao said the filing of libel or cyber libel charges should not discourage journalists in exposing wrongdoings in government, adding that the media is a necessary part of ensuring that honesty, efficiency and integrity will prevail in public service. Senator Manny Pacquiao with...
Why did Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi file libel charges against officials and reporters of seven Philippine media outfits that reported about the graft complaint against him? His counsel, lawyer Ruy Rondain, alleged it was because the reporters only based on a press conference and on a press...
The lawsuit filed by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi against seven media organizations, including the Manila Bulletin, for publishing a story on him and Davao City-based businessman Dennis Uy facing a graft complaint over irregularities in the Malampaya gas field buyout was meant to stifle freedom of...
Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Alfonso Cusi has filed libel and cyberlibel charges against officials and reporters of seven Philippine media outfits for their alleged "libelous attacks" published in articles about his supposed involvement in the controversy...
Many are waiting for Enchong Dee's reaction relating to the cyber libel case filed in court against him by Rep. Claudine “Dendee” Bautista-Lim. The actor, usually very vocal on social media, has made himself scarce, though. In any case, Claudine has finally come out to explain the reason behind...
Enchong Dee is in hot water. Congresswoman Claudine Diana Bautista-Lim, party-list representative of Drivers United for Mass Progress and Equal Rights or DUMPER, has filed a cyber libel case at the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor in Davao Occidental against him. This was allegedly due to...
Malacañang hailed on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 5 the huge improvement it achieved in the net score on "personal freedom to speak freely" against President Duterte entering the final year of his administration. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) "The latest Social Weather Stations (SWS)...
Senator Manny Pacquiao filed a P100-million libel and cyber libel case with the Makati City Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday (Sept. 14) against religious sect leader and self proclaimed " Appointed Son of God" and "Owner of the Universe" Pastor Apollo Quiboloy who is also the spiritual adviser of...
A Manila court has dismissed a cyber libel case filed by a professor against Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and journalist Rambo Talabong over an article about an alleged corruption in a university. 13062025_MARIARESSA_ROMERO-1024x683 Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 24 issued an order in open...
Former Makati City Mayor Junjun Binay said the court ruling that declared former senator Antonio Trillanes IV guilty of libel is a reminder that a government position is not a license to destroy reputations. (Manila Bulletin File Photo / Antonio Trillanes Facebook page) He added that “courts will...
