MANILA, Philippines – "Fake news" and #MagkaibaYan trended on Twitter a day after Senator Trillanes filed a Senate resolution urging a probe into the "proliferation of false, erroneous, distorted, fabricated and/or misleading news and information on social media, as well as on the so-called social media trolls."



Senator Francis Pangilinan raised the same concerns, and filed Senate Resolution 271 to hold Facebook accountable for its inaction to address the spread of fake news. "More than being an online platform, Facebook may be described as a de facto media company or publisher that should be responsible and accountable for the content it distributes and allows to be distributed, in order to protect the national discourse from fabricated and false news." (Read: To curb hoaxes, Facebook must accept it's a media company)