Altermidya - People’s Alternative Media Network opposes legislative proposals to regulate social media content in the name of combating fake news and disinformation. While disinformation is a pressing issue, government regulation of expression is more often wielded against critics, journalists,...
‘Take a different stand from Yasay’ YOUTH GROUPS marched to the United States (US) Embassy today to mark the 70th Filipino-American Friendship Day and protest the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and other military agreements with the US....
A paramilitary group associated with the 8th Infantry Batallion of the Philippine Army went on a shooting rampage during a wedding celebration in in Sitio Tibugawan, Brgy. Kawayan, San Fernando, Bukidnon, killing a pregnant woman and wounding five children. According...
Hopes that formal peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) will push through remain high among both sides, as the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has stated that it...
REGRETTABLY, the conversation between President-elect Rodrigo Duterte and the news media has turned sharp and shrill. All but lost in the noise is the two parties’ common duty in law and tradition to serve and to inform the Filipino people on issues, events and...
On June 30, Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte assumes the highest seat in the country with the promise of change. Over 1,000 leaders from various people’s organizations gathered at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman on June 29 to present their agenda for the...
This year’s most awaited mixed martial arts (MMA) match in the country is not between two renowned athletes. After their brawl video went viral, actors Baron Geisler and Kiko Matos accepted the Universal Reality Combat Championship’s (URCC) offer to settle their...
Much has been written about the wrong or unwelcome pronouncements of incoming president Rodrigo Duterte: his statement on journalist killings, catcalling, revival of the death penalty, and plans to bury late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng Mga Bayani. An...
We, alternative media members of AlterMidya, express our concern over Facebook's blocking of certain accounts of journalists, artists and activists apparently because they shared posts criticizing the Marcos family and the plans to move the late dictator Ferdinand...
President-elect Rodrigo Duterte errs in declaring that most journalists are being killed for being corrupt and in implying that only corrupt journalists have been killed in the Philippines. While corruption is a continuing problem in the press and media, it is simply...
Incoming president Rodrigo Duterte said during the electoral campaign that contractualization is one of the first things that his administration will end. Does his statement mean that there is a ray of hope for contractual workers currently battling for their right to...
Amid allegations of fraud in the vice-presidential race and emerging discrepancies in canvassing in the senatorial race, poll watchdogs reiterated their call to make foreign firm Smartmatic and Comelec (Commission on Elections) officials accountable for the conduct of...
Poll watchdog group Kontra Daya has called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to extend voting hours to 7 p.m. because of numerous reports of failures of Vote Counting Machines (VCMs). By midday, Kontra Daya has monitored 59 incidents of VCM errors and failures....