By Prince Golez
The cyber libel conviction of Rappler’s Chief Executive Officer Maria Ressa was a case of “bad journalism” and “bad lawyering,” Malacañang said.
In an interview over ANC’s Headstart Wednesday, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that Ressa failed to fact-check their allegations against businessman Wilfredo Keng, who filed a cyber libel complaint against the Rappler chief and former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. in 2017.
“You need to read the decision because the poor judge cannot defend her decision. The decision speaks for itself, that is her defense, there is no suppression of the freedom of the press. It was a case of bad journalism, it was a case of bad lawyering,” said Roque.
“Maria Ressa did not lift a finger to prove the absence of malice despite the presumption of malice in law… She did not offer any evidence that they actually resorted to fact-checking. She did not show any public documents to support their conclusion that Mr. Keng was a criminal,” he added.
On Monday, the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46 found Ressa and Santos guilty of cyber libel over a 2012 article linking Keng to human trafficking and drug smuggling. The article also alleged that former Chief Justice Renato Corona used a luxury vehicle owned by Keng.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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