Philippines dispatch: Pigs, presstitutes and how journalists are harassed

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In the Philippines, an alarming and unacceptable wave of OnlineAbuse has intensified, and journalists, particularly women, are facing a soft war against MediaFreedom. WashingtonPost’s Manila reporter RegineCabato reports on her experience. MsReads

The messages generally claim my reporting is fake and lacks sources — though the sourcing is clear in the articles — and use a lot of insults. Across campaigns, I’ve been called a liar, a pig and, most recently, a “whorenalist” — a cruder variation of the more common presstitute.

The first campaign against me was for a short news item about how Twitter confirmed taking down hundreds of accounts defending Duterte because of the accounts’ inauthentic behavior. When I shared the news, a barrage of hate flooded my notifications on Twitter — some are still visible in the repliesretracted the story. The second time was for tweeting about the overcrowded hospitals during the covid-19 surge. In both cases the harassment lasted around two to three days.

Nothing, however, can compare to the campaigns against the Philippines’ most famous journalist, Maria Ressa, founder of the online news site Rappler, 2021 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and relentless Duterte critic.Analysis of these attacks When I spoke to her last year, Ressa said that disinformation was melting into behavior modification. “The data tells me it has gotten worse, not better,” she said. “Far more action has to be taken, otherwise we won’t have integrity of elections.”Leni Robredo

 

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