Manila 6th district Rep. Benny Abante's intense grilling during the hearing on fake news and disinformation Friday, March 21 at the House of Representatives left pro-Duterte social media personalities literally sobbing and shaking.
Abante--apparently fed up with the supposed baseless claims being spread by the resource persons on social media--turned confrontational when he brought up during the inquiry the social media posts the latter had made.
READ MORE: http://mb.com.ph/2025/3/21/what-made-vloggers-cry-during-house-hearing
Abante--apparently fed up with the supposed baseless claims being spread by the resource persons on social media--turned confrontational when he brought up during the inquiry the social media posts the latter had made.
READ MORE: http://mb.com.ph/2025/3/21/what-made-vloggers-cry-during-house-hearing
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00:30Mr. Chairman, just a matter of protocol, may I move to strike out the statement of the
00:42Chairman Abante addressed to M.J.
00:46Second, Mr. Chair.
00:47Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
00:48Any objection?
00:49There being none, the uttered word is stricken off.
00:57Any further questions?
01:00I rest, Mr. Chair, and thank you so much.
01:03I'm not angry at you, Ms. M.J.
01:07We're just threatening the truth here, you know?
01:11Okay, Your Honor, but again, I don't know where you get the idea that you are the criminal
01:19forces.
01:20Anyway, I...
01:21You go ahead, Mr. Chair.
01:22Okay, sir.
01:23You go ahead.
01:24My apologies.
01:25Yes.
01:26Okay.
01:27My apologies.
01:28My apologies.
01:29My apologies.
01:30Yes.
01:31Okay.
01:32My apologies.
01:33Okay.
01:34My goodness.
01:35Okay.
01:36You said, in Tagalog, ang tanga ng gobyernong to, not just as leaders, but as human beings.
01:50Is that what you feel?
01:52Sir, I apologize.
01:54I do not know what happened on December 28th to make me angry, but if I wrote it that time...
02:01You're apologizing?
02:02For not...
02:03No, sir.
02:04I mean, I do not know what situation on December 28th...
02:11Let me continue on.
02:12Let me continue on.
02:13Yes, sir.
02:14I do not know what happened on December 28th to make me angry, but if I wrote it that time...
02:38Mr. Chair, when one is angry, one says bad things, and in the situation that, sir, Mr.
03:05Chair, in the situation when I found out that our...
03:08Mr. Chair, you still have words, Mr. Chair, it means that you are actually telling your
03:20anger to your followers, your anger?
03:23Where did you get that anger?
03:26I mean, do you have the facts?
03:28Do you have the information?
03:30Do you have the documents, Mr. Chair?
03:33Sir, it's in the news that we will be in debt this year and last year.
03:38Sir, please, Mr. Chair, that's why I got angry because I saw someone hugging, embracing,
03:47and then, sir, I am not laying it on the congressman, I am laying it on the person who gave that
03:54person 5,000 despite that, sir, because we are taxpayers, it's painful, sir, that we will see...
04:01Ms. Quiset, you're being paid.
04:03Why? I'm asking you, where did you get this?
04:08You just got it from the news.
04:10You don't have the documents.
04:12You cannot even tell me if you're telling facts or truth.
04:15Sir, it's in the news that we will be in debt this year and last year.
04:19My goodness, you're going to base your statement, the government is stupid, in the news that
04:26you read, Mr. Chair, and then you're telling me you're a journalist, and you're telling
04:30me that you're speaking the truth?
04:32Mr. Chair, respectfully po, those are my feelings, kasi binamigay natin yung pera sa ATAP...
04:38Therefore, if that's your feeling, Mr. Chair, I demand that you apologize to this committee.
04:44I will apologize, Mr. Chair, for my bad words, or for... I apologize for my bad words, sir.
04:56I apologize for saying the word tanga in my post.
05:00Maraming maraming salamat, Mr. Chair, for admitting that, no?
05:04Siguro naman, makikita mo naman ang gobyerno, eh, sasabihin mo mga tanga kami.
05:12Siguro, pinapalagay mo, alam mo sa akin, Mr. Chair, ang pinapalagay ni Ms. Quiset, ha?
05:22Yung audience niya, mga tanga, eh.
05:24Yung na pinapalagay mo. Hindi ang gobyerno.
05:28Yung audience mo, mga tanga, kaya papaniwalaan nila sa nasabi mo, sapagkat yung audience mo mismo,
05:35ang hindi nakakaintindi.
05:38That is fake news, Mr. Chair, and that is what we're investigating right now.
05:45You see? I hope that you understand that, Mr. Chair.
05:50Mr. Chair, Ms. Quiset, do you understand what I'm trying to say?
05:54Ikaw, ang nandito sa akin yung mga sinabi mo tungkol sa amin, ha?
05:59Hindi ako sumagot diyan, eh.
06:02Hindi ko na kinakailangan pang-belabor yan.
06:06So, anyway, Mr. Chair, anyway, nakita ko naman na Ms. Quiset is now apologetic to what she said.