The pending anti-disinformation bills confuse the symptoms with the disease. Instead of addressing the political, economic, and technological systems that manufacture and profit from coordinated information manipulation, they place the burden on individual expression and expand government...
STATEMENT The National Telecommunications Commission’s order to shutdown broadcast network ABS-CBN is unconstitutional and an assault to the people’s right to information. The order is contrary to the recommendation of Congress to issue a provisional license for the...
STATEMENT A turn for the worse – this best describes how the fundamental freedoms of speech, expression, and of the press have been abridged in the past months, with the attacks against press freedom escalating amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, May 3, as the world...
STATEMENT The Altermidya Network, together with independent journalists nationwide, demands the immediate release of seven Altermidya correspondents in Panay arrested on May 1. Our colleagues from Dampig Katarungan, Panay Today, and Panaysayon— all member outfits of...
STATEMENT Bulacan police apprehended six volunteers of Tulong Anakpawis-Sagip Kanayunan, along with former Anakpawis Rep. Ariel Casilao, who were on the way to a relief drive in Norzagaray, Bulacan. The manner that the police presented the circumstances of the arrest...
JOINT STATEMENT We, media organizations, advocates of freedom of the press and of expression, journalists and academics, raise the alarm over the insertion of measures to control free expression in the "Bayanihan to Heal As One" Act. We refer to Section 6(6), which...
While we recognize the gravity of the situation, we assert that this imposition is unnecessary, unreasonable and unconstitutional.
STATEMENT At a time when the whole of Philippine society must come together to address the worst public health crisis in decades, the Duterte administration is instead engaged in abridging the people’s right to know. With the national government’s implementation of...
STATEMENT Senate Bill 1083 or the 'Anti-Terrorism' Bill, recently approved on third and final reading by the Upper Chamber, is – for all intents and purposes – the Duterte administration’s penultimate attack against the Filipino people, the last piece in the puzzle...
They are at it again: harassing and maliciously red-tagging journalists, including veteran journalist and AlterMidya host Inday Espina-Varona, Nonoy Espina of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Froilan Gallardo of Mindanews, and several...
(Joint Statement: Alipato Media Center for Bulatlat, Altermidya Network, Kodao Productions, Pinoy Media Center Inc. for PinoyWeekly, Plaintiffs; and IP Converge Data Services Inc., Ernesto R. Alberto, Nerissa S. Ramos, Anabelle L. Chua, Juan Victor I. Hernandez,...
Solicitor General Jose Calida is on a vicious roll – aimed not only against ABS-CBN, but against the very tenets of our freedom of expression, speech, and of the press. Calida filed a quo warranto petition last week to void the network’s franchise. Now he has also...
Altermidya Network condemns the arrest of our colleague in Tacloban, Frenchie Mae Cumpio of Eastern Vista. Cumpio was arrested with 4 other known human rights leaders in Tacloban City, including Marissa Cabaljao, spokesperson of People Surge Network in the...