KUALA LUMPUR: Social media platform providers cannot be compelled to take down content deemed critical of the government, Deputy Communications Minister Teo Nie Ching told the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday (Feb 27).
(PNA file photo) MANILA-Senatorial aspirant and former police chief Guillermo Eleazar on Wednesday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to conduct a thorough investigation into the reported pre-shaded ballot in Singapore amid the overseas absentee voting. This as netizen Cheryl Ab, a Filipino in Singapore, claimed that she had received a pre-shaded ballot from the Philippine Embassy there. The embassy denied it but said there was an inadvertent incident in which a spoiled ballot was handed out to a voter on April 10. The incident is now making rounds on social media and has been triggering allegations of electoral fraud. Eleazar said it is unfair to some candidates who would be dragged into this incident of which they have no knowledge. "I am urging the Commission on Elections to investigate this incident and ensure that all measures are in place to prevent this kind of incident from happening (again)," he said. He also urged other overseas Filipino workers who would e
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Manila, Apr 7 (EFE).- Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced Thursday the closure of 400 accounts to stop a disinformation campaign that threatens to distort the result of the May 9 presidential elections to elect the successor to controversial President Rodrigo Duterte. In a statement, Mark Zuckerberg’s company said the deleted accounts were intended …