Philippines: Maria Ressa, Rey Santos Jr convicted of cyber libel

rappler.com

30 points·aspenmayer··5 comments

Original title lacked context. The country was added to the beginning of the title.

> Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 46 convicted Rappler CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa and former Rappler researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr over cyber libel charges in a high-profile verdict handed down Monday, June 15. Rappler as a company was declared to have no liability.

The Philippines is one of Facebook's Internet.org countries where any link tapped on Facebook isn't charged against your phone's load/balance. (the country is largely pre-paid accounts and balances)

That's not really how it worked. You got free data on facebook, but you couldn't follow the links on free data. It's why misleading headlines were causing a big misinformation problem.

Because of Rappler’s arrogance.

https://twitter.com/abscbnnews/status/1272120272993353728?s=...

I don't know anything about Keng or when he did or did not make money trafficking drugs and people. He doesn't seem to have suffered much from whatever adverse coverage he received in May 2012. [0] Still... doesn't it seem possible that the government will go for any pretext to hound the primary journalistic voice that challenges some of the more outrageous abuses in Philippines? Where else should we go to keep up with what's happening there?

[0] https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/224092-fast-facts-wilfr...

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