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00:00Some vloggers who were invited but did not attend the hearing of the Tri-Committee on Camera on Fake News.
00:08They asked the Supreme Court to stop the hearing because it is not in aid of legislation.
00:14The committee said that the hearing is in line with the creation of a law against spreading false information online
00:20and damaging the reputation of pro-China vloggers in the Philippines.
00:24We have first news, Tina Panganiban Perez.
00:31This is the first hearing of the Tri-Committee on Camera,
00:35whose aim is to address the longstanding problem of spreading fake information online.
00:41One of the topics discussed in the hearing is the damage to the country of some social media accounts
00:47that are based in the Philippines but are still connected to China.
00:51This is the latest news, we were told that a pro-China network of ex-accounts
00:56is spreading anti-Philippine sentiment while pushing content related to Vice President Sara Duterte.
01:03We are listening to the statement of Vice President Sara Duterte about this.
01:08The question of the Tri-Committee co-chairperson, Representative Dan Fernandez.
01:12Our ownership of the West Philippine Sea is affected by the spread of lies on social media.
01:22The Philippine trolls are spreading false information about this.
01:30Can we consider them as traitors of the country?
01:32But of the 41 vloggers invited to the hearing, only 3 came.
01:38Some vloggers said that they are from other countries.
01:41I am referring to A.K.A. Joe DiVille.
01:45Here, he slandered me.
01:48He said, you are a fool in the squad.
01:53You are a waste of electricity.
01:58Respectfully, Elizabeth Joey Cruz.
02:01It's hard for you, you are slandering a place where we have no enemies.
02:05Come here, come here.
02:08He will give a show-cause order.
02:10Even other vloggers who did not come.
02:13Including the lawyer and the former press secretary, Trixie Angeles, who wanted the Tri-Committee to be disbarred.
02:20This hearing is not to suppress their freedom of speech.
02:28Our aim here is for the police to use social media platforms.
02:36We should have discipline, we should have a code of conduct.
02:41We have ethics in using social media.
02:46The DICT admitted that they have a problem in chasing those who spread lies online.
02:52We are not saying that we will control social media.
02:55But just to allow the law enforcement agencies to have more immediate power to react.
03:01We have a challenge in obtaining information and evidence.
03:04Because sometimes, they post fake identities on Facebook.
03:07Political trolls are not tech-brainwashed, uneducated, poor voters in rural areas.
03:13Some of them are from middle-class families.
03:16And they see political trolling as just a side gig, a hustle to make ends meet.
03:22There are different kinds of workers.
03:24And we need to hold accountable the people at the top.
03:27The elites in advertising and PR industries.
03:31There are journalists who blog.
03:33But blogging does not make you a journalist.
03:36As a journalist, we adhere to the core values of journalism, which are truthfulness, fairness.
03:47In social media blogging, do you believe that we should have a code of conduct or at least have ethical standards?
03:59In the Supreme Court of the Philippines, some dissidents went to the House hearing against fake news
04:04that they will stop violating their freedom of speech.
04:08Because they were forced to go to the hearing.
04:11They insisted that the hearing is not in aid of legislation,
04:15but to embarrass them and violate their freedom of speech.
04:20They also asked to stop the so-called social media regulation that violates the Constitution.
04:27They said that they should not be blamed by the media,
04:30because they did not broadcast news, but opinions.
04:35The lawyer who is being disbarred by the committee said that he is ready to answer.
04:39We are stopping them from continuing the hearing,
04:45to stop their intimidation of us who speak on social media.
04:54Let's end this proposed legislation.
04:58They are saying that this is a regulatory framework for social media.
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