(NUJP)
“The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines stands with our colleagues from the campus publications of the University of the Philippines and denounces the cowards who have threatened them with violence,” the journalists’ union said in a statement.
The Tinig ng Plaridel, the official student paper of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Mass Communication, reported receiving a message Monday, March 1, containing “red-tagging and death threats from a suspected troll account.”
“The person behind the account sent pictures of campus publications’ logos and student journalists in UP, of which include the Editor-in-Chief of Tinig ng Plaridel, falsely branding them as ‘terrorists’ associated with certain rebel groups,” the student paper said in a Facebook post.