00:00An analysis by Rappler's sister company, The Nerve, finds coordinated online attacks against Sen. Rizzo Ontiveros over the past week.
00:09Published on Sunday, July 6, the study found that pro-Duterte accounts on Facebook took turns posting a video in which a former Senate probe witness made grave accusations against Ontiveros.
00:19On June 24, the page Pagtanggol Valiente posted a video in which Michael Maurilio said Ontiveros had bribed him to testify against televangelist and trafficking suspect Apollo Quibuloy.
00:29Within hours, at least two other influential pro-Duterte pages re-uploaded the video. Copy-pasted posts soon turned up on other pro-Duterte pages.
00:38The same claims then made it to pages promoting members of the Duterte family, including Vice President Sara and Kitty Duterte.
00:44The post showed signs of coordinated behavior. In one instance, three pages, each with tens of thousands of followers, uploaded the same video with identical captions.
00:53At least 20 posts across different accounts carried the same image and caption, calling the senator the legend of lies.
00:59These posts drew a total of at least 4,400 interactions.
01:03Ontiveros has filed cyber libel complaints against Maurilio and others who spread the video.
01:08She said Maurilio sent distress calls to her office on the days right before the video came out.
01:13She later shared screenshots of her team's correspondence with Maurilio.
01:17Maurilio had testified to having been abused within Quibuloy's religious sect.
01:21Ontiveros said he might be under pressure to recant his testimony.
01:24The first thing is he who wants them to be under pressure to let her kid bring death from his humanity.
01:33And he also won't have run and lost a lot of her friends.
01:36And the last thing is, I saw the present at the time we met.
01:38There it was a lot of people who are not tied to her.
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