Just how dangerous is it for one to become an instrument of propagating fake news and false truths in the precipice of electoral engagements? To be an unquestioning follower of a distorted reality while turning a blind eye to the facts presented is alarming. To be a peddler of that
October 21, 2021
Maria Ressa, more popularly known as the Chief Executive Officer of Rappler – a digital media company claimed to be driven by uncompromising journalism, has recently been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Rappler has been long imputed with a string of cases including cyber libel, tax evasion, and even issues
October 13, 2021
The legal period of filing for the certificate of candidacy has just concluded. However, the active engagement of people on different social media platforms seems to be restless, conflicting, yet informative to some extent except for those who (for lack of a better term) irresponsibly profess irrational opinions grounded on
October 11, 2021
Imagine yourself one fine morning, sipping your piping hot cup of coffee. You open your phone and – as one routinely does – you access your social media account, and lo and behold! You are greeted by a surge of election surveys all over your news feed. Despite our unnerving
October 1, 2021
With a social media platform reaching millions of subscribers, some of whom intellectually accede to the idealism which the content creator ascribes to, the neutrality card will never compensate for the bitter chapters of the past – a past where the life and liberty of the people were at the
September 22, 2021
The recent pronouncement of the Supreme Court in the 2021 en banc decision of Tan-Andal v. Andal, (G.R. No. 196359) unanimously modified the interpretation of psychological incapacity as a ground for declaration of nullity of marriage under Article 36 of the Family Code. Resultantly, the stringent requirement for nullity of marriage
September 14, 2021
The term of the present administration is about to end in a few months. However, issues on audit, albeit its questionable propriety under the law, resound in the political arena. In the same wise, the campaign against corruption until the closing chapters seems to be rhetorical, often in dissonance with
September 6, 2021
(In retrospect), the Talibans emerged as an Islamic social force in Afghanistan, a conservative Islamic country, in early 1990s which later seized effective control of Kabul, the country’s capital. Recently, an unprecedented, yet foreseeable event in Afghan history unfolded. A few days ago, the Talibans took over one of the
August 26, 2021
It is just fair to remind public officials, especially those in the national government, that public office is a public trust. This is enshrined in Article XI, Section 1 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution. In conjunction thereto, the same Constitution and the Administrative Code of the Philippines mandates that
August 20, 2021
(The author is the founding partner of A.P Law and a Professorial Lecturer of the USA College of Law) When an institution upsets the general populace, the diversity of reactions instantaneously comes abound. The “Pandemic Effect” featured by the Belo Medical Group as a “marketing strategy” in the form of
August 12, 2021
It has been more than a year since we took a hiatus on face-to-face classroom interaction. Where are we at present? Since the very first nationwide lockdown in March 2020, there was somewhat an abrupt development in the way we educate, at least to most of us. For some students,
August 7, 2021
For centuries, sports had been originally captured within the exclusive domain of men. However, the contemporary dynamics in international sports competitions, like the Olympic Games, proved that such male dominance is not perpetual. Since the philosophical times of Aristotle who labeled women as the weaker sex which has become a century-old
July 31, 2021