MANILA: Philippine Nobel Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa ruled out on Monday going into exile over legal challenges she faces, and her lawyers urged the government of President Rodrigo Duterte to drop all charges against her.Ressa, the first Nobel laureate from the Philippines, shared the Peace Prize with Russian investigative journalist Dmitry Muratov,.
The Philippine government on Monday (Oct 11) finally acknowledged the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to journalist Maria Ressa, but insisted there is press freedom in the country and that the existential threat to her news organisation is due to its legal troubles, not a targeted effort by President Rodrigo Duterte to shut it down.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa used her new prominence to criticise Facebook as a threat to democracy, saying the social media giant fails to protect against the spread of hate and disinformation and is "biased against facts".
that s what i hope will give us more power to do this. last year, a judge in the philippines found the veteran journalist and former colleague who wrote the story liable for cyber issues. the article published two years before new liable laws enacted. authorities dismissed the case then president rodrigo came power. in frequent media attacks, he went so far to say journalists were not exempt from assassination if they did something wrong. suddenly, ressa facing 11 criminal cases from cyber liable