{"id":144059,"date":"2018-01-05T23:07:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T04:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=144059"},"modified":"2018-01-05T23:07:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T04:07:15","slug":"probe-sought-on-facebook-rules-over-censorship-of-anti-marcos-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/05\/probe-sought-on-facebook-rules-over-censorship-of-anti-marcos-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Probe sought on Facebook rules over &#8216;censorship&#8217; of anti-Marcos posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103289\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103289\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Poe-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103289\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Poe-1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Senator Grace Poe (PNA photo)\" width=\"500\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Poe-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Poe-1-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Senator Grace Poe (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senator Grace Poe on Friday sought for a probe into Facebook guidelines following reports that posts of a newspaper columnist and educator were censored for violating the site\u2019s community standards.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the viral anti-Marcos posts of Manila Bulletin columnist Tonyo Cruz and educator Gang Badoy were removed by Facebook and later restored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a matter that we believe should be looked into in the next hearing of the Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media on the proliferation of fake news, or in a separate inquiry if necessary,\u201d Poe said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Poe, chair of the committee, said that she wanted to know the clear guidelines of social media organizations such as Facebook in handling the activities of their users.<\/p>\n<p>She also wanted to make sure that the guidelines of these platforms do not infringe individuals\u2019 right to freedom of speech and expression.<\/p>\n<p>Reports showed that Badoy\u2019s post contained photos of the alleged draft agreement between the government and the family of the late President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. regarding the ill-gotten wealth of his family.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Legal Counsel Sal Panelo earlier said that he did receive a document proposing the possible grant of immunity to the Marcoses June last year. However, has not acted on the document.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senator Grace Poe on Friday sought for a probe into Facebook guidelines following reports that posts of a newspaper &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":103289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[24894,41879,12146,41880],"class_list":["post-144059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-censorship","tag-facebook-guidelines","tag-senator-grace-poe","tag-viral-anti-marcos-posts","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}