PCO chief Ruiz hits Malaysia in fake news probe; recalls Sabah issue

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Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Jay Ruiz criticized Malaysia during the House tri-committee (tri-comm) hearing Friday, March 21, on the topic of fake news and disinformation.  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/3/22/pco-chief-ruiz-hits-malaysia-in-fake-news-probe-recalls-sabah-issue  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00You see what's happening to us is we are being divided online, it's very polarized, and yet

00:12it's Filipinos and Filipinos fighting each other.

00:15It is not good for our country to see our countrymen being divided by hate speech, by

00:23pornography, that's very easily accessed by our generation.

00:31You know I was talking to the West Philippine Sea earlier about communicating the West Philippine

00:36Sea issue to our countrymen.

00:39I said never again, never again that the Philippines will lose any part of our country, just like

00:47what happened in Sabah.

00:50In the Sabah issue in the 1960s, if you look at it, Sabah was owned by the Royal Sultanate

00:54of Sulu for a long time.

00:56The Malaysians were paying rent to the Philippines.

01:01We tried to get it and claim it as our own.

01:06But what did the Malaysians do to us?

01:09They pitted Filipinos against Filipinos.

01:14They supported a Muslim secessionist movement in the South using religion and race against

01:22each other.

01:23Filipino Christians, Filipino Muslims fighting each other.

01:27So eventually, because they divided us and eventually conquered part of our territory,

01:34we lost Sabah.

01:37And imagine if Sabah is as rich as Mindanao, even probably richer than Mindanao.

01:45The Petronas Towers were built because of the minerals and properties of Sabah.

01:49It's happening again.

01:52This is happening, but now a foreign actor using fake news to destroy each other.

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