Economic professor and former finance undersecretary Cielo Magno files a cyber libel complaint against blogger Sass Sasot for ‘malicious, demeaning, and defamatory imputations.’
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00:00Economic professor and former finance undersecretary Shelo Magno files a cyber libel complaint against blogger Sass Sasot for
00:07quote-unquote malicious, demeaning, and defamatory imputations.
00:11Magno says in a Facebook post, quote,
00:13It's time to push back and to use all the legal remedies that are available to us to put an end to this display of impunity.
00:19This is Sassot's post that led to the complaint.
00:21Shelo Magno is so angry with Mary Grace Piatos that she gave a few billion pesos to congressmen to find this person.
00:27She is indeed an economics professor.
00:29There is demand, there is supply.
00:31The last part refers to Magno's Facebook post from 2023 where she seemed to question President Marcos' rice price cap using a basic supply and demand chart.
00:40She was later asked to resign from her position as finance undersecretary.
00:44Sassot is a well-known pro-Duterte blogger who has frequently spread disinformation, pro-China propaganda, and attacks against critics of the Duterte family.