Rappler asks SC to junk Calida petition vs fact-checking deal with Comelec

MANILA, Philippines – News organization Rappler urged the Supreme Court on Monday, April 11, to dismiss and “not to glorify” the petition filed by the Office of the Solicitor General against the now-suspended partnership between Rappler and the Commission on Elections for the 2022 polls.

“There can be no ‘prior restraint’ in the activity of ‘fact-checking’ since what is being ‘fact-checked’ are statements that have already been published and disseminated. On this basis alone, the OSG’s claim that ‘fact-checking’ constitutes ‘prior restraint’ must fail,” Rappler argued. For example, the OSG had claimed that Rappler’s license had been revoked with finality, in light of the foreign investment through Philippine Depositary Receipts of American philanthropist Pierre Omidyar.

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