{"id":255167,"date":"2020-05-18T04:39:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255167"},"modified":"2020-05-18T04:39:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T08:39:24","slug":"mocha-uson-apologizes-for-honest-mistake-over-fb-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/18\/mocha-uson-apologizes-for-honest-mistake-over-fb-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Mocha Uson apologizes for &#8216;honest mistake&#8217; over FB post"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_255174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255174\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/owwa-deputy-administrator-mocha-uson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255174\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/owwa-deputy-administrator-mocha-uson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/owwa-deputy-administrator-mocha-uson.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/owwa-deputy-administrator-mocha-uson-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OWWA Deputy Administrator Esther Margaux &#8220;Mocha&#8221; Uson. (PNA File photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Deputy Administrator Esther Margaux &#8220;Mocha&#8221; Uson on Monday appeared before the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to clarify the use of a wrong photo to accompany a report on her social media account regarding personnel protective equipment (PPE) sets purchased by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Uson appeared before the NBI Cybercrime Division which is tasked to investigate all reports of fake news amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kahit sino dapat, di porke government official ka, hindi ka maga-appear, so nandito po tayo dahil nag-comply po tayo sa subpoena at pinaliwanag natin &#8216;yung ating side (Everyone even a government official should appear when summoned, so I am here to comply with the subpoena and to give my side,&#8221; Uson told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Uson clarified that she had mistakenly posted one of the photos but immediately issued an erratum.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Yung ginawa ko naman, ay ang intensyon ko, i-inform yung ating mga kababayan na hindi pinababayaan ng gobyerno ang ating mga health workers, mga front-liners, kaya nga dun sa post ko, nai-share ko &#8216;yung good news na mayroong ginawa ang gobyerno na mag-provide ng PPE sa ating mga front-liners (What I did, the intention was to inform our countrymen that our government was doing what it can for our front- liners),&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>On April 2, Uson posted photos of PPE sets purchased by the government but mistakenly posted one of the photos from SM Foundation that was lifted from a news site. This was corrected later on.<\/p>\n<p>NBI Cybercrime Division chief Victor Lorenzo said his office will evaluate the case against Uson and asked her to file a formal affidavit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Deputy Administrator Esther Margaux &#8220;Mocha&#8221; Uson on Monday appeared before the National Bureau &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":255174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255167","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255175,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255167\/revisions\/255175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}