Manila, April 4 -- The Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 (Central Visayas) on Friday said cybercrime charges have been filed against two individuals for peddling fake news through their social media accounts.

PRO 7 chief Brig. Gen. Redrico Maranan said the filing of complaints stemmed from a video circulating on social media during the recent grand procession of Sinulog Festival and prayer protest rally.

"Ating mga cyber investigators ay napag-alaman natin very tedious at very circuitous ang imbestigasyon na ginawa natin sapagkat online kasi ito (Our cyber investigators found that the investigation we conducted was very tedious and very circuitous because it was online)," he said in a statement.

Maranan said they have coordinated with tel...