Manila, Jan. 4 -- The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has warned the public against what it described as a "deliberate" and "synchronized" social media propaganda drive allegedly being carried out by the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) and allied groups.

NTF-ELCAC Executive Director Ernesto Torres Jr. said dozens of interlinked pages and sectoral fronts have been pushing identical narratives, slogans, hashtags, visuals, and calls for action-signs, he said, of central direction rather than spontaneous activism.

"This is neither coincidence nor spontaneity. This is central direction from the party," Torres said in a statement Saturday.

"The...