There were other Cagayan de Oro-based journalists like Cong Corrales who were red-tagged, such as Froilan Gallardo, Joey Nacalaban, and Pamela Orias. They all wrote for local dailies and were critical of the Duterte administration. FactsFirstPH
On Friday, May 5, he went to the National Privacy Commission to file an unprecedented complaint that could compel Meta to disclose information about the anonymous accounts that red-tagged him.
They, including Corrales, shared two things in common: they all wrote for local dailies and were critical of the Duterte administration.Sunstar-Cagayan de OroOrias said the red-tagging stopped as soon as she quit journalism for good to work at the city hall after the newspaper shut down in Cagayan de Oro.
“Until now, we can’t sleep well at night. When we are out together, we always keep our distance from each other for fear of an attack. In case something happens, at least one of us will be left to take care of the family,” Corrales’s wife Ailyn told Rappler on Friday. Manny Jaudian, former COPC president, said: “It was terrible. All that Cong and other journalists did was their work. No one deserves that. Social media attacks like that only serve one purpose: weaken press freedom at the expense of the public’s right to know.”
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