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Don’t spread misinformation: CHR fact-checks allegations made against it in 2017

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/10/01/misinformation.jpg"/></figure></div><p>It pays to be informed.</p><p>This is what the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said, as it has resurfaced one netizen&#x27;s rebuttal against a comedian&#x27;s allegedly misleading post in 2017. </p><p>A post that features comedian Beverly Salviejo&#x27;s statement against the CHR in 2017 seemed to be circulating on social media, which led the agency to speak out through a Facebook post to correct several of her assertions. </p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/chrgovph/posts/3185739541542569" data-width="auto"> </div><p>One of Salviejo&#x27;s claims was the agency&#x27;s silence during the Mendiola massacre that happened in January 1987. </p><p>But the agency, created under the 1987 Philippine Constitution, was officially formed on May 5, 1987, roughly four months after the said massacre. </p><p>&quot;The Commission cannot prevent a crime that occurred prior to its establishment,&quot; it said. </p><p>She also argued the agency &quot;did not protest&quot; when farmers were killed in Hacienda Luisita, but the CHR responded that its former chairman, lawyer Norberto D. Dela Cruz, &quot;confirmed grave human rights violations&quot; in the bloody strike. </p><p>The constitutional body said it issued a probe on the violent dispersal of Kidapawan farmers, even recommending the filing of charges against the authorities involved in the incident. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://chr.gov.ph/chr-releases-kidapawan-report">Read the report here: CHR releases Kidapawan Report</a></li></ul><p>Salviejo&#x27;s Facebook post has since been deleted. </p><p>The agency, meanwhile, urged the public to be more discerning of information sprouting on social media, despite the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. </p><p>&quot;Every right involves a corresponding responsibility to others and society. Every individual is thus enjoined to be responsible netizens to arrest the spread of malicious content,&quot; the agency said. </p><p>The commission, no stranger to being attacked by troll farms online, has been critical of the administration&#x27;s war on drugs, other alleged human rights violations, among others. </p>

<p>A post that features Beverly Salviejo's statement against the CHR in 2017 seemed to again be circulating on social media, which led the agency to speak out through a Facebook post to correct several of her assertions. </p>

A post that features Beverly Salviejo's statement against the CHR in 2017 seemed to again be circulating on social media, which led the agency to speak out through a Facebook post to correct several of her assertions.