The long-held dream of having vital medicines that are affordable to most Filipinos may yet be realized following the meeting of minds last week between President Marcos Jr. and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of pharmaceutical products. In a brief phone conversation on Aug. 5, Modi expressed his desire to further expand longstanding bilateral relations between the two countries. At the same time, he assured Mr. Marcos of India’s
“Hate speech in social media has been shredding the moral fiber of the nation. It motivates violence and destabilizes social glue and forbearance.” I saw these lines in an article I recently saw in Rappler, written, I believe, by Val Villanueva. I am happy that the attention on hate speech in particular and disinformation in general is emphasized and sustained. Because both hate speech and disinformation will be around for a long time. At the same time, the changing of the times, from dictatorial, monarchic, and autocratic governance for many countries to democracy, and especially those with the most powerful economies, necessarily
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