The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation allegedly has “documents” linking Senator Leila De Lima to Guy Philippine, a former Haitian rebel leader, who was wanted by the US for drug trafficking.
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The online article was shared by a certain Adam Abdulai to the Duterte fan page “President Rody Duterte Facebook Army,” which gained 280 shares, as of writing.
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The story from online.read-news.com added that Russia did not want to interfere with the Philippine’s legal matters at first, but was prompted to release the documents when the European Parliament tried to intervene with the matters concerning De Lima and the extrajudicial killings in the country.
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The Intelligence Service was quoted in the article as saying:
“We have documents, conversations, transactions that shows that these two have had dealings.”
“We would forward them to the courts for the necessary examinations.”
While it is true that Guy Philippine was indeed arrested for after being listed as a wanted man by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to import cocaine, there was nothing being reported about his connections to De Lima at all.
We checked the other politics-related articles on the site online.read-news.com and found it a few hoaxes, such as those claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin is dead or that former Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay was fired for issuing passports to over 100 Indonesians.
There were other hoaxes under the website’s General News category, too.
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It seemed like these fake news sites are trying their best to further drag De Lima’s name through the mud, especially after she was incarcerated over drug charges. Soon enough, we might read more hoaxes about individuals with links to drugs being linked to the senator as well. Of course, given the Filipino netizens’ anger towards De Lima, it would be easier for these fake news sites to sell their content, despite it being fake!
These hoax sites are taking advantage of vulnerable netizens who don’t bother checking the veracity of the claims of the stories they read online. Don’t fall for this kind of trap. Get out of social media and use the resources available to you (Google, other search engines) to verify those claims. If you sense something suspicious, ignore those articles and report them so they won’t spread further.
Be Informed. Beat the Trolls, Share the Truth!
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