On the Philippines’ ‘fake news’ problem
On the Philippines’ ‘fake news’ problem
Senator Jose Pimentel Ejercito, Jr., more widely known as Jinggoy Estrada, has filed a bill (Senate Bill No. 1296) that would amend the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (Republic Act 10175) to include “fake news” among the many offenses the Act penalizes.
The Estrada bill defines “fake news” as “misinformation and disinformation of stories (sic) which is (sic) presented as a (sic) fact, the veracity of which cannot be confirmed, with the purpose of distorting the truth and misleading its (sic) audience.”
The grammatical lapses of its “definition” are not the only infirmities of the latest bill criminalizing the dissemination of false information.
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