Quad comm chair slams 'narco trolls'

Their days are numbered, Philippine offshore gaming operators and others involved in illegal activities including drugs apparently want payback from the House quad committee in its ongoing investigations on POGOs.

- By DELON PORCALLA

According to the presiding chairman of the House of Representatives' quad comm, these illegal operators have hired the services of what he called "narco trolls" shortly after engaging "narco vloggers" who peddled fake news online.

"The sheer number of trolls and the amount of false information that they flood the internet with will give you an idea on the value or amount of money needed to pay them. Who is the innocent person who is bound to benefit from these trolling?" Rep. Robert Ace Barbers said in a privilege speech yesterday.

"Obviously, the ones funding these malicious campaigns are the ones hurting most in our continuing quad comm hearings," the Surigao del Norte second district congressman said.