Senator Bato Dela Rosa Wants To Investigate Facebook For Deleting Pro-Government Pages
BATO WANTS TO INVESTIGATE FACEBOOK – Senator Ronald Dela Rosa filed a resolution asking for help from his fellow lawmakers to investigate social media giant – Facebook.
Recently, Facebook deleted over 150 pages linked whose origins could be traced back to China. Furthermore, Facebook’s cybersecurity division had already explained the reason for the shutdown was “coordinated inauthentic behavior”.
Meanwhile, Dela Rosa viewed this as censoring. According to the Senator, Facebook may be violating Filipino’s freedom of speech. As such, the Senator and former PNP chief filed Senate Resolution No. 531. which urges the Senate to conduct a probe on Facebook.
There is an urgent need for the Senate to investigate the censorship done by Facebook considering that it affects not only the peace and order, and security of our country, but likewise greatly affects every Filipino’s freedom of expression as guaranteed by no less than the Philippine Constitution
Moreover, Dela Rosa said that among the 57 accounts, 31 pages and 21 Instagram profiles that the social media platform took down were those that were “supportive of President Rodrigo Duterte”.
Moreover, Dela Rosa said that among the 57 accounts, 31 pages and 21 Instagram profiles that the social media platform took down were those that were “supportive of President Rodrigo Duterte”.
READ: List Of Pro-Duterte Facebook Pages Removed By Facebook
The Senator noted that pages that were removed were criticizing “communism, youth activist and opposition”. Along with this, pages that were against Communist Party of the Philippines and its military wing the New People’s Army were also removed.
It was alleged by those who criticize the censorship made by the social network platform that some Facebook pages and profiles allegedly supporting and promoting the violent activities and ideologies of the communist-terrorist CPP-NPA were not included in the action taken by Facebook
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