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Probably the most challenging story I did yet. Thanks to everyone who helped me produce this.

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"We draw a firm line between criminal disinformation and protected speech, ensuring freedom of expression, the press and open discourse. They remain inviolable under our Constitution," Vida says. @PhilippineStar

The three officials maintain their agreement would ensure freedom of speech, of expression, and of the press will be maintained. @PhilippineStar

The Presidential Communications Office, Department of Justice, and Department of Information and Communications Technology enter into an agreement for a "unified whole-of government response" in its campaign against misinformation, disinformation and deepfakes. @PhilippineStar

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After repeatedly warning of a “bloodbath” if forced to defend herself in an impeachment trial, Vice President Sara Duterte again turned to the Supreme Court (SC) for help, this time to stop the justice committee of the House of Representatives from hearing the impeachment complaints against her. tinyurl.com/ykdcv744 | via @onenewsph

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Meanwhile, SC Senior Associate Justice Marvic Leonen was “on official business,” while Associate Justice Maria Filomena Singh was “on leave.”

SC Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa had “no part” in the decision since he was among the officials who submitted the SEC’s revised interim pay plan before the late former president Benigno Aquino III in 2015, being chief presidential legal counsel then.

Former officials and employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will no longer have to return over P92 million worth of salary increase enforced in 2012, which the Commission on Audit (COA) flagged as illegal in 2014, the Supreme Court ruled.philstar.com/headlines/2026…