Palace: Fake news peddlers started targeting First Family after Marcos-Duterte fallout

Fake news started hounding the First Family since President Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte had a political fallout, Malacañang claimed.

- BY BETHEENA UNITE

Responding to several allegations thrown at the First Family over the weekend, Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro did not mince her words in claiming that the wave of fake news started ever since the Vice President's relationship with the First Family started going downhill.

“Ever since tina-target na sila ng fake news. Hindi ito bago. Simula nang hindi naging maayos ang pagtingin ni VP Sara sa pamilya Marcos, nag-start na po ang fake news (Ever since they have been the target of fake news.

This is not new. It started when Vice President Sara's relationship with the Marcos family was beginning to worsen)," Castro said in a Palace briefing on Tuesday, March 25.

Castro, however, emphasized that the Palace is not accusing anybody behind the peddling of fake news against the First Family.

"I am not accusing anybody but a lot of people are propagating misinformation against the President and the country," she said.

The Palace official also revealed that Marcos "is slightly affected" by the fake news circulating about them, prompting him to ask the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) to intensify its job to counter misinformation.

"In a way, he is slightly affected that's why they asked the PCO to do its job to counter fake news, not only for himself but for the country," Castro bared.

'Nakakatawa'