The complaint against SMNI hosts Lorraine Badoy and Jeffrey Celiz seeks to ‘highlight how red-tagging foments hate, abuse, and violence against journalists and truth-tellers’
MANILA, Philippines – Broadcast journalist Atom Araullo filed a P2 million damage suit on Monday, September 11, against Sonshine Media Network International hosts Lorraine Badoy and Jeffrey Celiz, seeking redress for “damages and injuries suffered due to defamatory statements maliciously disseminated.”
Araullo was represented by legal counsels from the Movement Against Disinformation. He filed the complaint at the Office of the Prosecutor in Quezon City. The legal action was sought to “hold accountable the two SMNI hosts for their wrongful acts and to highlight how red-tagging foments hate, abuse, and violence against journalists and truth-tellers,” the group Movement Against Disinformation said.
Badoy was a former communications undersecretary during the Duterte administration, as well as the former spokesperson for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict . She has a history of alleging that personalities, including opposition figures, are part of the local communist movement. Badoy is now one of the hosts of SMNI show