MANILA, Philippines — The proposed Senate investigation into the alleged state-funded “troll farms” will also touch on the “incredible surge” in the employment of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) personnel in 2020.
This was according to Senator Panfilo Lacson, who was among the 12 senators who filed a resolution seeking for a Senate investigation into allegations that public funds are being used to run “troll farms.”
“For one, we want to be clarified why there is an incredible surge in the hiring of personnel in the PCOO. What are the job descriptions of those hires?” Lacson said in a message to reporters.
“How much in public monies are be…
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