The House of Representatives also invited representatives from social media platforms, including Meta, TikTok, and Google, to the hearings. Google representatives reportedly attended the hearing in February 2025. TikTok’s representative was present at the third hearing in March 2025, and Meta’s representatives were present at the fourth hearing in April 2025, after show cause orders were issued to both TikTok and Meta306, 307. The social media companies were there to present how they handle information disorder on their platforms and to answer questions from members of the House on related matters. At the April 2025 hearing, as Meta presented its approach to handling information disorder, House members raised the possibility of regulating social media platforms. Based on media reports, the members stressed that they should be able to directly reach out to Meta in the Philippines regarding issues on the platforms. Meta’s representatives, however, explained that their office in the Philippines does not handle content moderation directly; instead, those functions are based in Singapore and the United States308. The company’s representative, Rafael Frankel, Meta’s director of public policy in Southeast Asia, reportedly said that he would be “more than happy” for Meta to collaborate with the Philippine government on any disinformation-related regulations309. Another key moment in the hearing was when Frankel cited the third-party fact-checking program as one of Meta’s measures for addressing information disorder on its platform. After Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would discontinue the program in January 2025 and replace it with Community Notes, a House member asked how this change would preserve the integrity of Meta’s approach to disinformation and misinformation310. Frankel noted that the third-party fact-checking program remains in use everywhere outside the United States and that, at the time of his remarks, there were no plans to change it globally311. Javier, Paige. “House Panel Issues Show Cause Orders to Social Media Platforms for Snubbing Hearing.” ABS-CBN News, 18 Feb. 2025, www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/2/18/house-panel-issuesshow-cause-orders-to-social-media-platforms-for-snubbing-hearing-1825. 307. Panti, Llanesca T. “House Panel Tells Facebook, TikTok to Explain Absence at Fake News Hearing.” GMA News Online,18 Feb. 2025, www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/936600/house-tricomm-facebook-tiktok-fake-news/story. 308. De Leon, Dwight. “At House Hearing, Lawmakers Zero in on Liability of Meta Over False Content.” Rappler, 8 Apr. 2025, www.rappler.com/philippines/house-hearing-lawmakers-zero-in-liability-meta-false-content. 309. Flores, Dominique Nicole. “Meta Open to Engage Philippines on Regulating Social Media Platforms.” The Philippine Star, 8 Apr. 2025, www.philstar.com/headlines/2025/04/08/2434491/meta-openengage-philippines-regulating-social-media-platforms. 310. Montgomery, Blake. “Why Did Mark Zuckerberg End Facebook and Instagram’s Factchecking Program?” The Guardian, 7 Jan. 2025, www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/why-did-mark-zuckerbergend-facebook-instagram-fact-checking. 311. Panti, Llanesca T. “Meta Says It Won’t Drop Fact Checking System Outside U.S.” GMA News Online, 10 Apr. 2025, www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/942306/meta-says-it-won-t-drop-factchecking-system-outside-us/story. 306. 68