{"id":20514,"date":"2026-06-24T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=20514"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:22:09","slug":"senate-to-probe-tacloban-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/senate-to-probe-tacloban-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"SENATE TO PROBE TACLOBAN SCHOOL SHOOTING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Senator Risa Hontiveros has officially announced that the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality will open an investigation on July 1, 2026 into the fatal school shooting in Tacloban and the growing threat of online radicalization among children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSa July 1, muli nating bubuksan ang pagdinig para alamin kung may papel ang mga online platforms sa pagkalat ng mararahas na ideya. Nagiging pugad ng mga grupong nambe-brainwash at nagra-radicalize sa mga bata,\u201d Hontiveros said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The hearing follows the committee\u2019s April 14, 2026 investigation, in which it was revealed that online platforms and gaming spaces are allegedly being used to groom, manipulate, and radicalize children into violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTitingnan natin ulit kung may sapat bang ginagawa ang lahat ng online platforms para hindi mapagsamantalahan ang mga kabataan,\u201d Hontiveros said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>During the April 14 hearing, the committee also tackled how online platforms have been used not only for violent radicalization, but also for online sexual abuse, exploitation, grooming, and extortion of children.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cKung ginagamit ang internet para biktimahin ang mga bata, dapat may managot. Hindi pwedeng kita lang lagi ang iniisip ng Big Tech habang ang ating mga pamilya at paaralan ay nababalot ng trahedya,\u201d the lady senator said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHindi natin hihintayin na magkaroon ng sunod pang biktima bago kumilos. Dapat makapasok ang bawat bata sa paaralan nang ligtas at makauwi rin nang ligtas sa kanilang pamilya,\u201d she added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Risa Hontiveros has officially announced that the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality will open an investigation on July 1,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob.png",1100,733,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob-768x512.png",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob-1024x682.png",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob.png",1100,733,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob.png",1100,733,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob-1100x720.png",1100,720,true],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob-1024x682.png",1024,682,true],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob-720x530.png",720,530,true],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782231418291blob-350x350.png",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/category\/national\/\" rel=\"category tag\">National<\/a>","tag_info":"National","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20516,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20514\/revisions\/20516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}