Senators seek penalties vs ‘fake news’ purveyors

In a bid to protect the public from disinformation that is currently rampant in the country, senators are planning to file a bill that will stop individuals and groups responsible for creating and spreading false information or “fake news.”

Senators Grace Poe and Joel Villanueva over the weekend said they are convinced that the widespread proliferation of fake news should be addressed by penalizing those wittingly or unwittingly disseminating it just to malign other people and institutions.