MY fellow columnist Ramon Tulfo reported yesterday that Wilfredo Keng, the businessman libeled by Rappler, disclosed to him that it was  tycoon Benjamin Bitanga who invited him to invest P100 million in the internet-only news site. That wasn’t surprising at all.

He (Bitanga, left) bankrolled Rappler, and made Ressa the Duterte-basher, its CEO and executive editor.
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