Comelec to launch 'Task Force Kontra Fake News'
Comelec to launch 'Task Force Kontra Fake News'
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00:00 Aside from ensuring peaceful and orderly elections, the Commission on Elections, or COMELEC, aims
00:05 to prevent the spread of fake news.
00:08 Thus, the poll body is set to launch the task force Contra Fake News this April.
00:13 COMELEC too will be busy handling voter registration as well as voter education in connection still
00:19 with the goal of honest and clean elections.
00:23 "We know that there are a lot of scams, a lot of fake news here on Facebook.
00:31 That's the goal now.
00:33 We will issue a resolution on that.
00:37 We hear a lot of fake news coming from our stakeholders, like Lente, PPC-RB, they have
00:47 a study, the Participate, and the Commission pays attention to that."