The Senate Committe on Public Information and Mass Media is set to resume on Tuesday next week (January 30) the hearings on fake news.
This is based on the resolution filed by four senators.
During the hearing on October 4, 2017, Senate Committee Chairperson Grace Poe had said, if fake news is not stopped, "it cultivates the culture of lying and creates lynch mobs that destroy people and institutions."
"If purveyors are allowed to get away with the lies, they embolden government officials to also lie in order to escape accountability, crush dissent and commit illegal acts."
Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson had attended the inquiry.
She had been accused of spreading fake news but during the hearing, she claimed that she too was a victim of disinformation on social media.
The inquiry was also prompted by concerns of seven members of the Senate Majority.
They said a blog, 'Silent No More PH,' had supposedly made it appear that they did not back a Senate resolution that urged President Duterte to stop the spate of extra judicial killings.
