“I feel like to say that President Duterte values freedom of the press is misleading at best, a lie at worst,” Ressa said. | CGonzalesINQ
But for Ressa, actions speak louder than words.
“The exponential attacks on social media that try to label me as a criminal was followed by President Duterte a year later saying those same attacks in his State of the Nation Address. A week after President Duterte attacked us in July 2017, it’s like the floodgates open, it was a signal,” she said. The case filed by Keng in 2017 stemmed from a Rappler article titled “CJ Using SUVs of Controversial Businessman” written by Santos in 2012, which claimed that former Chief Justice Renato Corona was using a Chevrolet Suburban sports utility vehicle found to be registered to Keng.
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