Andanar says post on PCOO FB page vs ABS-CBN not properly vetted

May 10, 2020

The Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) on Saturday said the re-sharing of a post related to ABS-CBN shutdown on its official Facebook page was not properly vetted.

“We would like to state that the resharing by the PCOO Facebook Page of a posted content by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) Facebook Page regarding the legal situation of ABS-CBN Corporation’s broadcast license was done without the usual vetting process of our office,” Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said in a statement.

Andanar said the post was not “in any way an official statement or opinion of the PCOO.”

“The issue regarding ABS-CBN Corporation's network franchise remains within the purview of Congress,” he said.

In a separate statement, Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque also denied any Palace's involvement on the said post.

“We wish to clarify that the...posts did not come from the Office of the Presidential Spokesperson and the NTF Stratcomms which is headed by the OPS,” he said.

“Hence, not the official statement of our Office,” he added.

According to the post, the NTF-ELCAC alleged that illegal charges and broadcast operations were at the heart of cease-and-desist order by the National Telecommunications Commission and in another post, NTF-ELCAC blamed the network for the lapse of its franchise.

The posts were already deleted from the government official Facebook pages. Ella Dionisio/DMS