Defamation, slander, and libel are terms that are frequently confused with each other, LegalZoom says. They all fall into the same category of law and have to do with communications that falsely ...

Those of us who work in journalism understand that when we tell people that we’re worried about what the Trump administration is doing to press freedom -- and particularly about the threat of changes ...

The Supreme Court reiterated in the recent case of Causing v. People (GR 258524, April 8, 2026) that cyber libel prescribes one year from the time it is discovered. In December 2020, Cotabato Second ...

The SC also affirms that prescription starts upon the discovery of the offense, not when the libelous post was published ...