KATRINA STUART SANTIAGO

IT is clear that while we might laugh at the people behind Presidential Communications, and cannot even begin to imagine what it has now become given the appointment of un-credentialed, anti-facts Mocha Uson; and while we might scoff at the social media army that are the ka-DDS—Duterte devotees—with an axe to grind against mainstream media, facts, data, and investigative journalism; here we are at a point when a member of the Philippine Congress—a senator at that—can face the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and declare with a straight face that there is no new spate of killings under the Duterte administration, and that the international attention was all the fault of mainstream media coverage, that bloated the number of dead and equated these killings with the drug war the President holds closest to his heart.

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