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Sotto vows fight vs fake news
Senator-elect Vicente Sotto III is pushing for stricter measures against fake news, advocating for the immediate removal of false content from online platforms.
Sotto emphasized that freedom of speech does not permit the invention of fake news and proposed a standalone law that will immediately take down and arrest creators of fake news on online platforms.
He recalled that the original Press Freedom Law, enacted in 1946, was limited to print media.
In 2019, he filed an Anti-Fake News Bill that sought to eliminate the spread of fake news in online and social media platforms by criminalizing the act of maliciously creating or spreading false information.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. had earlier ordered his government to combat fake news and disinformation, coinciding with the 2025 midterm elections.
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