ASEAN Regional Coalition to #StopDigitalDictatorship 6.2 Challenges and Cases The Philippines is ranked “partly free” in the Freedom of the Net Index with an aggregate score of 65 in 2021 and 2022. It placed 147th out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index 2022 with a score of 41.84 and occupies position 132 in 2023, with a score of 46.21.32 The Philippines is also one of the most unsafe countries in the world for journalists to conduct their work.33 Attacks on On-Duty Journalists Philippines Disorders involving the Media inThe Philippines 50 47 40 Nbof ofIncidents Events Nb 30 18 20 9 10 11 11 6 5 0 2020 2021 2022 4 2023 Year TOTAL 87 24 The information used to construct this infographic is sourced from the ACLED database, specifically the dataset titled “Disorders involving Media.” Within this database, we have exclusively selected relevant countries from the ASEAN region, namely Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, and the Philippines. However, this infographic only focuses on the Philippines. The events were further filtered based on an additional criterion: date. As our report focuses on events from 2020 to 2023, only those occurring between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2023, have been included The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), Disorder Involving the Media, (10 February 2024), available at:https://acleddata.com/data-export-tool/ LEGEND Disorders involving the Media Disorders involving Fatalities Fig. 6.3A: Disorders involving the Media in the Philippines, 2020-2023. The Philippines 221