00:00A trouble-free Tuesday afternoon and rest of the day to all of you.
00:08Yours truly, Denise Osorio here, and this is PTV News Now.
00:12Tops on our stories at this hour.
00:15Misinformation is an infectious and menacing disease to all.
00:19Meet the Senate's latest cure against its spread.
00:21Earlier today, the Senate unveiled its latest countermeasure to protect itself from the
00:25ravages of fake news.
00:27An official and dedicated channel in the messaging and chat application, Viber.
00:32Senate President Francis Escudero hailed this latest development, which he says will
00:36serve as a shield against misinformation and fake news in the Senate's quest to provide
00:41the public accurate and timely updates and developments within the chamber.
00:46The new Viber channel was announced in the Senate's official Facebook page, which also
00:50coaxes the public to check out the other pages under its Facebook account to include links
00:55to Instagram and TikTok accounts.
00:57Escudero likened misinformation to an epidemic that spreads like wildfire in cyberspace all
01:03the way to the real world.
01:04Thus, it is incumbent among all government institutions to provide the people with access
01:10to reliable and accurate information about the institutions of government so the public
01:14can respond with informed decisions and at the same time, empower themselves.
01:21Don't look now, but President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. may be meeting with the most powerful
01:26man on the planet and leader of the free world this year.
01:30Since late last year, after the 45th US President won the November presidential elections, President
01:35Marcos Jr. had hinted on a possible up-close encounter with then-President-elect Donald
01:40Trump in Washington, D.C.
01:43What's more, such encounter could happen in the first half of the year, as per Philippine
01:47envoy to Washington, D.C., Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez, who in a radio show interview
01:53yesterday said there is a good chance of the leaders meeting at the White House after the
01:58visits of Pentagon Chief and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth next week and Secretary of State
02:04Marco Rubio thereafter.
02:06Then again, it has been the President's wish to hold bilateral talks with U.S. President
02:10Donald Trump to hash over key issues like continued U.S. military support in the region
02:16and on immigration, which the President would try to hopefully work out a slight shift in
02:22immigration policy for undocumented Filipinos bound for deportation.
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