Online personalities associated with the camp of former president Rodrigo Duterte apologize to a House multi-panel after they were forced to admit they shared false information online.
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00:00Online personalities associated with the camp of former President Rodrigo Duterte apologized
00:06to a House multi-panel after they were forced to admit they shared false information online.
00:12Vloggers and content creators attend the House Tri-Committee hearing Friday, March 21 after
00:18failing to get a reprieve from the Supreme Court about their participation.
00:22Chrisette Chu, who has 250,000 followers on Facebook, initially claimed there was a looming
00:27mass resignation at the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines
00:32in the wake of Duterte's arrest.
00:35The PNP already refuted these claims.
00:37I am maintaining that I am speaking the truth of the impressions made on social media.
00:43That's why I said these were impressions.
00:47Meantime, MJ Quiambao, a blogger with 67,000 followers on Facebook, claimed the victims
00:53of the drug war were a hoax.
00:55She says her opinion posted online was based on news reports saying some groups were mislabeling
01:00their deceased loved ones as extrajudicial killing victims.
01:05Manila 6th District Rep. Benny Abadde did not let her off the hook.
01:09Did you attend the quadcum hearing?
01:12The victims of EJK were there and they even had a prayer rally.
01:20It's hard.
01:24You will hear news and then you're going to put up an opinion.
01:29And you want to let the people believe it's the truth.
01:34That's the problem.
01:36The Tri-Committee inquiry began in February.
01:38It was triggered by online attacks from quote-unquote trolls and malicious bloggers and Chinese
01:44propaganda on the West Philippine Sea.