{"id":14991,"date":"2020-02-26T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/26\/rappler-editor-maria-ressa-journalist-they-could-shut-us-down-tomorrow-philippines-fake-news"},"modified":"2020-02-26T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T02:00:05","slug":"rappler-editor-maria-ressa-they-could-shut-us-down-tomorrow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14991","title":{"rendered":"Rappler editor Maria Ressa: &#8216;They could shut us down tomorrow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines journalist leading war on fake news may be jailed for 12 years on libel charges<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe toughest part is not knowing whether it\u2019s going to be a normal day, or a not normal day,\u201d says Maria Ressa, speaking by phone from her office in Manila. A former CNN bureau chief who spent two decades as an investigative reporter, Ressa is the founder of a news website that has found itself on the frontline of the global disinformation wars.<\/p>\n<p>Since the summer of 2016, her reporters at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/\">Rappler<\/a> have been engaged in a running battle with paid trolls, influencers, bot armies and fake news websites run by supporters of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/rodrigo-duterte\">Rodrigo Duterte<\/a>, the authoritarian president of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/26\/rappler-editor-maria-ressa-journalist-they-could-shut-us-down-tomorrow-philippines-fake-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines journalist leading war on fake news may be jailed for 12 years on libel charges\u201cThe toughest part is not knowing whether it\u2019s going to be a normal day, or a not normal day,\u201d says Maria Ressa, speaking by phone from her office in Manila. A f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,236,687,240,238,55,204,235,824,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-digital-media","category-facebook","category-maria-ressa","category-media","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-social-media","category-social-networking","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14993,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions\/14993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}