According to the latest news from ABS-CBN, Senator Tito Sotto’s Chief of Staff Atty. Hector Villacorta admitted that they have copied the works of American blogger Sarah Pope.
In a message posted on the Facebook page of Sarah Pope, the senator’s chief of staff sadi that it was the senator’s staff who lifted the content of the blogger’s work without attributing it to her.
Atty. Villacorta was quoted as “I understand you felt slighted that your blog was not attributed to you which became part of the speech of the senator. Let me say that after asking my staff, indeed, your blog was used but only in quoting also from the same book of Dr. Campbell-Mcbride,” he said.
The message posted on Facebook was confirmed by Villacorta to ABS-CBN News and ANC that he indeed sent the message to Pope.
After the controversy that involved Senator Tito Sotto’s speech about copying the works of an American blogger became a hot issue on the internet. The senator first denied the issue that he was copying from a blogger.
The senator’s quote against the blogger during an interview with Karen Davila even made the issue too personal for some Filipino bloggers who felt being insulted after the Senator quoted that “Yung blogger na sinasabi nila, pareho kami ng pinagkunan eh, si Natasha Campbell-McBride. Bakit ko naman iku-quote ‘yung blogger, ang kinu-quote ko si Natasha McBride,” Sotto said.
