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MANILA, Philippines, April 22 (Philippine Inquirer/ANN) The Philippines is facing “a worse state of press freedom” after it ranked 138th out of 180 countries in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, the Commission in Human Rights (CHR) said Thursday. The Philippines placed at 136th from last year’s report released by Reporters sans frontière (Reporters Without Borders). The report particularly called out President Rodrigo Duterte’s verbal tirades against Inquirer, Rappler, and ABS-CBN. “The persecution of the media has been accompanied by online harassment campaigns orchestrated by pro-Duterte troll armies, which also launched cyberattacks on alternative news websites and the site of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, in order to block them, ’’ RSF said in its report on the Philippines. The RSF classified the Philippines as having a “bad” environment for journalism. ....
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