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."