The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is coming up with guidelines on use of social media, citing widespread disinformation in cyber space since the start of clashes between government troops and Islamist terrorists in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur, in southern Philippines on Tuesday.

“The reason these guidelines have to be set and to be given [out] and [to have a] censure part [stems from] the things we have been seeing [online about] the operational environment [that the AFP is playing in],” Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla Jr., AFP spokesman, said on Friday.

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