Trump has a precursor – and maybe even a mentor – when it comes to waging war on media he does not like. Iris Gonzales reports from the Philippines.
These days Maria Ressa, executive editor and CEO of Rappler, goes around the streets of Manila with police escorts. You can tell if she’s in her office by the police cars parked outside the tower block in the eastern part of Metro Manila.
At one point extra guards were also posted inside Rappler’s busy third-floor office. After President Rodrigo Duterte came into power in 2016, the online news outfit received threats from his supporters.
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