CANDIDO O. WENCESLAO:

Verify, verify, verify. This is how Wenceslao sums up his advice to the public, as he tackles how disinformation has sowed panic and blurred the real situation in two barangays in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur following the attack by the Maute Group. “What has been established, though, is that some netizens who are either misinformed or intentionally spreading lies and disinformation are making the situation look worse than it really was for reasons only they know,” he says.