Manila, March 21 -- Senatorial bets of the administration slate Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas on Friday promised to push for penalties against fake news peddlers should they win a seat in the May 12 midterm elections.

At a press conference during their campaign sortie in vote-rich Cavite province, former Senate president Vicente Sotto III said an "anti-fake news" and "anti-fake content" law is one of the priority measures he plans to champion at the upper chamber.

"I'm ready for the bill to be filed," he said. "If we make it back to the Senate, it's one of the first bills that I will file - anti-fake news and anti-fake content and penalties for those who produce those fake news," he said.

Senator Francis Tolentino, meanwhile, said h...