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Rewriting Reality: The Information War That Defined 2025

By Nikko Balbedina, Regine Cabato, Gian Libot & Cristina Chi

Edited by Felipe F. Salvosa II

Co-published with PressOne.ph

December 31, 2025December 31, 2025

There were nearly no slow news days in 2025. The year was a high-pressure firehose of events that left the public scavenging for information. High news demand provided the perfect cover for foreign and domestic actors to plant manipulated narratives online. The goal: to distort public perception of the news. Journalists found sophisticated machineries of […]

CAMPAIGN FINANCE

Marcos and Duterte received millions in contributions from contractors. Can—and will—they be held to account?

by Guinevere Latoza September 18, 2025September 22, 2025

Five Ways the Duterte Influence Machine is Deceiving Filipinos

by Regine Cabato and Gian Libot August 7, 2025August 11, 2025

Five Things to Watch Out for in the 20th Congress

by Guinevere Latoza July 27, 2025December 8, 2025

PCIJ in the news

2018 PCIJ report cited in plunder case against Rody Duterte, Bong Go

by Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism July 7, 2024July 8, 2024

Duterte and the ICC: An End to Impunity?

by Carlos H. Conde, Human Rights Watch senior Philippines researcher September 25, 2021

Key Witnesses: Prosecution

by Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) and Freedom for Media, Freedom for All Network December 12, 2019

Duterte’s secret SALN: The lie of his FOI

by Malou Mangahas December 11, 2019

Shamefully rich clan has 35 houses, fleet of wheels

by Carolyn O. Arguillas/ MindaNews and Freedom for Media, Freedom for All Network December 7, 2019

A billion-peso blunder: 6 in 10 machines
to verify voters conked out, not used at all

by Karol Ilagan and Malou Mangahas August 13, 2019