Jee Y. Geronimo

Mindoro fishers filed a class action suit on Tuesday, December 9, against MT Princess Empress shipowner RDC Reield Marine Services, charterer SL Harbor Bulk Terminal Corporation, insurer The Shipowners’ Club, and the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds — seeking to hold them accountable of the "environmental catastrophe brought by the Mindoro oil spill" that occurred in February 2023. | via Iya Gozum/Rappler (Photo from Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development) communities.rappler.com/ytUT…

COORDINATED POSTS OF FORGED DOCUMENT SEEKS TO DISCREDIT INVESTIGATIVE NEWSROOMS Several accounts, many of them with a reputation for disseminating disinformation, are posting a supposed memo from the National Endowment for Democracy. The supposed document insinuates that NED is coordinating the reports of Rappler, Vera Files, and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism on flood control corruption. It also purportedly aligns and supports the mass protests organized by Akbayan, Bayan, Karapatan, and Kabataan. The memo is fabricated. While “NED provides grants to independent organizations that pursue their own initiatives to advance transparency, civic participation, and government accountability,” it “does not direct or coordinate their activities, and it does not support or engage in any violent or unlawful actions whatsoever,” the organization said in a statement. ned.org/ned-statement-on-for… The circulation of the forged document is an obvious attempt at tainting anti-corruption work at a time when serious betrayals of public trust are being revealed to the public. As in the time of then-president Rodrigo Duterte, propaganda networks are on overdrive in harassing investigative journalists, fact checkers, and activists. As in those years, their intention now is clear: to enable corruption and abuse in government by discrediting those who expose them. Here’s everything you need to know about the ongoing flood control investigations: rappler.com/flood-control

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DPWH contracts bagged by the Gardiolas' construction companies have constantly surpassed P1 billion annually since CWS Representative Edwin Gardiola became a congressman rappler.com/newsbreak/invest…

President Marcos has appointed Francis Edralin Lim as the new SEC chairman, to replace Emilio Aquino whose term expires on June 5. communities.rappler.com/ytUT…

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