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MANILA - (UPDATED) Senate majority floor leader Vicente &quot;Tito&quot; Sotto on Tuesday lodged a cyberlibel complaint against Eduardo Angelo Dayao &quot;Cocoy&quot; Dayao, supposed administrator of the &quot;Silent No More&quot; blog that has been critical of the administration. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">TIGNAN: Unang pahina ng reklamong Cyberlibel ni Senate Majority Leader Tito Sotto laban sa isang blogger na isinampa sa Pasay Prosecutor’s Office <a href="https://t.co/crmcCWaK0f">pic.twitter.com/crmcCWaK0f</a>— Zandro Ochona (@ZandroDZMM) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZandroDZMM/status/935350624220094464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2017</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div>The complaint, filed before the Pasay Prosecutor&#x27;s Office, cited a September 26 article by the blog, which claimed that 7 majority senators, including Sotto, had allegedly refused to sign a Senate resolution condemning the killings under the administration&#x27;s drug war. Sotto challenged the article, saying the resolution did not even reach their offices. He also initiated a legislative inquiry into the &quot;fake news&quot; spread by the blog. <ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/28/17/mga-senador-nagkagirian-dahil-sa-bloghttp://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/28/17/mga-senador-nagkagirian-dahil-sa-blog">READ: Senators clash over blog on resolution vs killings </a></li></ul>During the probe, Rey Joseph Nieto of &quot;Thinking Pinoy&quot; said Dayao, which he claims to be a member of the communications team of the Aquino administration, is the administrator of Silent No More. Nieto said he found out that Dayao was operating 21 other websites, including the page ProPinoy, which he found out was co-founded by a certain Niña Terol. <ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/04/17/blogger-sheds-light-on-silent-no-more-page">Blogger sheds light on Silent No More page </a></li></ul>The National Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that Dayao is behind the Silent No More blog, Sotto said. Dayao failed to appear during the hearing despite a Senate invitation. With Zandro Ochona, ABS-CBN News

DEVELOPING STORY: Senate majority floor leader Vicente "Tito" Sotto on Tuesday lodged a cyberlibel complaint against Eduardo Angelo Dayao "Cocoy" Dayao, supposed administrator of the "Silent No More" blog that has been critical of the administration.

DEVELOPING STORY: Senate majority floor leader Vicente "Tito" Sotto on Tuesday lodged a cyberlibel complaint against Eduardo Angelo Dayao "Cocoy" Dayao, supposed administrator of the "Silent No More" blog that has been critical of the administration.