Senator Ramon
“Bong” Revilla Jr. on Tuesday welcomed the Senate bill seeking to penalize those who spread so-called “fake news”.Revilla said he is ready to tackle Senate Bill No. 9, filed by Senate President Vicente Sotto III, should he be elected as the new chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media in the 18th Congress.
Sotto, last month, said that Revilla may take the chairmanship of the public information committee in the incoming Congress. He previously held the said panel in the 13th Congress. But according to Revilla, fake news “distort and poison” the free exchange of ideas guaranteed by the Constitution. Putting an end to fake news will strengthen democracy, he claimed.
The bill, if passed and signed into law, would give the Office of Cybercrime of the Department of Justice the authority to issue rectification orders, takedown orders, and block-access orders. He clarified that the bill would not apply to legitimate media entities whose sources provided wrong information.
The Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media, during the 17th Congress, conducted hearings on the spread of false information online involving some government officials.
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