Warning of potential court action, Office of the Solicitor General urged the Commission on Elections to rescind its Memorandum of Agreement with online news site Rappler for the 2022 polls.
MANILA - A group of journalists on Thursday expressed opposition to the partnership between the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and online news website Rappler on voter engagement and fighting disinformation in relation to the May 9 polls. In a letter to Comelec acting chairperson Socorro Inting, the National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC), one of the country's oldest and biggest organizations of active press members said the poll body made a wrong decision when it partnered with Rappler. "While we respect the Comelec's right to partner with anyone in order to ensure that the coming political exercise is 'clean, credible, honest and transparent', we believe that your choice of Rappler as a "valuable partner" in the dissemination of "truthful information" is a contradiction that is unacceptable to most Filipinos. We are registering our protest because just like most Filipinos and just like you, we too, would want to see and experience a cl