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  "value": "Taft says Filipinos unused to press freedom",
  "statement": "Governor-General William Howard Taft justified the libel law's passage by saying Filipinos were a strange people unused to the freedom of the press.",
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  "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/claims/971",
  "subject_url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1901-philippines-us-colonial-libel-act-el-renacimiento",
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    "url": "https://cmfr-phil.org/inmediasres/luis-teodoro/a-relic-of-colonial-times-2/",
    "final_url": "https://cmfr-phil.org/inmediasres/luis-teodoro/a-relic-of-colonial-times-2/",
    "title": "A relic of colonial rule",
    "publisher": "Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility",
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