The first Casualty | Books
What if the powerful were to drown dissenters in a sea of information, let fake news drive online mobs and crush dissent?
by Prasanto K. Roy
Aug 23, 2019
2 minutes
The alleys of Manila's slums filled up with corpses. Bikers would shoot people and ride off. No one really knows how many died in the Philippines' brutal war on drugs since its vigilante president, Rodrigo Duterte, was elected in June 2016. Rights organisations estimate 12,000; some politicians say 20,000.
One politician who pushed back against the extra-judicial killings found herself on trial, with online mobs
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