For certain social media personalities the posting of unverified claims online is somewhat justified for as long as you use the word “daw”, or purportedly in English.
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00:00I just want to stick to the factual statements you made.
00:09And that's basically saying that maraming police at military daw ang magre-resign kasi
00:14hindi na daw nila kaya, marami daw.
00:17They cannot be part of this government.
00:20And apparently the resource person, Mr. Chair, has gotten this information from other social
00:26media posts.
00:29And on a critical matter such as this, Mr. Chair, she did not make any effort, or unless
00:34you're contesting it, any effort to verify it from official sources.
00:39Now, Mr. Chair, number one, I made sure to put the word daw because no policeman has
00:45ever come out to me, well, before, but it was in my ode when they would talk about their
00:52discontent.
00:53Every year you said, you're not, you don't want to write a lie.
00:58Yeah, and that's not a lie, sir.
01:00Let me ask you, maybe as a primary source person, naniniwala ka ba sa katotohanan?
01:05As a journalist?
01:06Of course.
01:07Ang pagsasabi ba nang hindi totoo, hindi pagsasabi na katotohanan tama, di ba?
01:14Mr. Chair, those are the impressions, not for you, I mean.
01:17No, no, no, I'm saying, I'm asking you, because I want to test if we have the same idea of
01:22what's truthful is.
01:23Yes, sir.
01:24Yes, Mr. Chair.
01:25Ang hindi pagsasabi ng totoo, ay hindi pagsasabi ng katotohanan, di ba?
01:26Yes, Mr. Chair, I maintain.
01:27Ang hindi pagsasabi ng totoo, ay kasinwalingan.
01:28Tama.
01:29Yes, sir.
01:30And I maintain I'm speaking the truth.
01:31Ang pagsasabi ng half-truth, ay pagsasabi din ng kasinwalingan.
01:42I am maintaining that I am speaking the truth of the impressions made on social media.
01:47Okay.
01:48Thank you, sir.
01:49Mr. Chair.
01:50I don't want to argue with her position, Mr. Chair, but I just want to bring the attention
01:55of the committee to another, to a news article showing the official position of the PNP.
02:02Can we flash that on?
02:07Can we flash that on the screen?
02:12Come, sir.
02:14Please flash the content.
02:30This is a press release.
02:33I think this is a news article from, if I'm not mistaken, from the Philippine Star, saying
02:43basically, according to the spokesperson of the PNP, hindi daw totoo ang nasasabing mass
02:51resignation ng mga miembro ng PNP.
02:55Tiyak po ang pagkasabing ni walang isang miembro ng PNP ang nagbitiw mula sa kanilang posisyon
03:03pagkatapos ang pagkaresto ni President Duterte.
03:07Pinabulaanan nga po nila, pinabulaanan nga po niya ang ilang particular na mga posts
03:14at larawan na kumakala sa social media tungkol dito.
03:18So have you read this article after your post?
03:22Mr. Chair, no, I have not read that article.
03:24And Mr. Chair, this article exactly affirms what I said earlier, that the mass impression
03:30of laymen like us, civilians like us, that there were mass resignations.
03:36The fact that the PNP...
03:38But Madam Chair, Mr. Chair, you just said, yet you do not share lies on your posts.
03:50Sir, I shared...
03:56Mr. Chair, that's what I said, kaya ako nag-include nang daw, these were impressions.
04:02The fact, sir, that our PNP had to write a press release means kami na hindi kami, wala kaming statistics.
04:10These were the impressions that were coming to us.
04:13So you're saying that this is something that we just...
04:15Sir, can I also finish why it's not fair here?
04:18Okay, Mr. Chair, does it mean that you have simply written this post out of your personal impressions
04:24or the impressions you believe are posted in other social media
04:29without even making sure whether there is enough basis
04:34or have made any effort to verify your statements?
04:38Mr. Chair, if I am not an insider in the PNP and they had to release that information,
04:46it means that they are correcting the general impression of masses like us.
04:52Doon po sa mga nauna niyo pong tanong, kung saan, ang sabi ko nga po ay hoax.
04:59Ang pinagbabasihan ko po doon ay yung mga naglalabasan ngayon na panibagong informasyon,
05:06kita naman po ito sa social media, kung saan yung mga napabilang na EJK,
05:14yung mga nagpakita ng picture ng mga anak nila na namatay daw sa EJK,
05:19actually ay hindi po connected sa EJK.
05:22At yung iba po ay buhay na buhay naman po.
05:25That's why, ang sabi ko nga ay hoax,
05:27dahil yung mga pinakita nung mga naglarali at pinapakita nila na namatay sa EJK
05:33ay hindi naman po patay.
05:35Mr. Chair, nag-attend ba kayo ng Quadcom hearing?
05:40Mr. Chair, nag-attend ba kayo ng Quadcom hearing?
05:45Yung mga biktima ng EJK ay nandoon at nagkaroon pa sila ng prayer rally?
05:53Mr. Chair, nag-attend ba kayo ng Quadcom hearing?
06:10Kung saan may isang aling Sheila, aling Lori, aling another mother,
06:18kung saan yung mga anak nilang pinapakitang namatay sa EJK ay hindi naman po.
06:25Doon po, yun po yung pinagagalingan ng aking sinulat na opinion.
06:32Yun po ay reaction at opinion sa mga nabalitaan ko po sa social media.
06:38At sa mga news online.
06:41Again, those are my personal reaction and opinion on the current events.
06:48Mr. Chair, ang hirap noon makakabalita ka ng anuman tapos you're going to put up an opinion
06:57and you want to let the people believe it's the truth.
07:02Yun ang problema dyan. Facts.
07:06They want you to believe that every young life lost was at the hands of our people's president, Roddy Duterte.
07:17This is a blatant lie.
07:20Pwede na pong sumagot siya?
07:23Yes, go ahead.
07:25Again, that is my truth. Those are my opinion.
07:29And nakabase naman din po yan sa mga available information.
07:35Ngayon, makikita po natin na yun nga po, may mga EJK victims nga raw, na hindi naman tala.
07:45Yung raw po, I'm referring...
07:48You have no right to say it's a massive hoax.