In an earlier interview, Comelec spokesman James Jimenez underscored the need to regulate social media because of its possible impact on the coming elections. We saw how potentially destructive of reasoned conversation social media was. Under that condition, knowing the impact of social media, we really need to regulate because it is being abused,” he maintained. According to Jimenez, while majority of social media users are “fine” there are small groups that are capable of exerting disproportionate impact using social media. The abuse of some has negative effects on everyone and that’s why we must have control over social media,” Jimenez added.

Source: Philippine Star February 02, 2019 16:02 UTC