MANILA, Philippines — The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism maintained on Saturday that its critical findings on Philippine media were accurate, despite a claim to the contrary of the government's task force on media security. 'We stand by the work and everyone involved in it,' said the institute's director Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. 'We reject this attack on the (Digital News Report 2023) Philippines profile as ‘false.'' He was referring to the response of former journalist Paul Gutierrez, the new head of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security, who branded the contents of the report as 'false.

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