(Eagle News)–“The right to free speech and freedom of the press cannot and should not be used as a shield against accountability.” This is according to the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46, which handed down a guilty verdict for cyber libel against Rappler’s Maria Ressa and former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. The cyber libel complaint was in connection with a story on businessman Wilfredo Keng published by the media organization in 2012 and republished […]





