Few days after hitting back at what certain sectors called the “narco vloggers,” Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, lead chair of the Lower House’s Quad Committee and chair of the Dangerous Drugs panel pounced on the alleged “narco trolls” who are people reportedly employed by displaced and displeased POGO operators and drug lords to make deliberately offensive, provocative posts in various social media platforms in order to spread lies, cause conflict and manipulate or change public opinion.
Chairman Barbers emphasized that he and his panel members welcome any criticism related to the performance of their job at Quadcom, but not personally maligning, defaming or slandering their person and integrity with outright lies or baseless accusations.
The lawmaker from Surigao del Norte said he hopes and prays that those pseudo-journalists, the self-proclaimed and self-righteous political analysts won’t experience what it is to be the subject of defamation and slander “so they would know how to be in that situation.”
In a privilege speech, Barbers said to state the obvious, dozens or hundreds of trolls, almost all of whom are adopting similar destructive and malicious propaganda lines, and probably paid by POGO and drug money, relentlessly attack personalities with total impunity.
THIS IS TERENCE MORDENO GRANA REPORTING FOR AFP COMMUNITY NEWS, ONE AFP FOR STRONGER PHILIPPINES
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