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COMBATING MISINFORMATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA TROLLS: Senator Grace Poe (3rd from right), chair of the Senate Committee on Public Information, stresses the need to address the proliferation of misinformation in social media during a committee hearing on Wednesday, October 04, 2017. “If unchecked, fake news cultivates a culture of lying. If purveyors are allowed to get away with their lies, they embolden government officials to also lie in order to escape accountability, crush dissent, and commit illegal acts with impunity,” Poe said. Also in photo are (from left to right), Senator Risa Hontiveros, Senate Minority Franklin Drilon, Senators Francis Pangilinan and Nancy Binay, Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III, and Senators Manny Pacquiao and Juan Miguel Zubiri. (PRIB Photo by Alexis Nueva España)