Proliferation of fake FB accounts alarms Ilonggo netizens

Facebook (FB) users in Iloilo have expressed alarm over the existence of their dummy accounts.

Ilonggo netizens started uploading on Sunday, June 7, the screenshots of blank FB accounts bearing their names.

The proliferation of duplicate accounts was first flagged by Tug-ani, the official student publication of the University of the Philippines-Cebu, a CNN Philippines report said.

“This came following the arrest last Friday, June 5, of some students who joined an anti-terrorism bill protest in Cebu,” the report further said.

The hashtag #HandsOffOurStudents trended on Twitter after “students and alumni of various universities around the country voiced concern over the surfacing of dummy accounts in their names.”

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said it would conduct a investigatiob into the sudden surge of fake Facebook accounts.

“This gives me cause for worry. We don’t need false information at a time when we’re dealing with a serious public health crisis,” DOJ Menardo Guevarra said in a statement.IMT