A government spokesperson has claimed ignorance of any attempt to weaponize the public media towards engineer public approval or manufacturing consent for the Constitutional Court, although Mass Media Complex reporters insist that there is coordinated political messaging across all public media platforms, on the Constitutional Court and healthcare crisis debates.
The Ministry stated this week that, it “respects the independence of media institutions and does not issue directives that undermine these constitutional principles……
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