The Senate committee on games and amusement will be issuing a show cause order to social media giant Meta —the firm behind Facebook and Instagram— for its failure to attend the panel’s hearing on the proliferation of online gambling in the country.
During Tuesday’s hearing, Senator Erwin Tulfo, committee chairperson, was visibly irked after the panel’s secretariat read Meta’s excuse letter requesting a separate meeting with his office instead of attending the hearing as its “relevant subject matter experts are based in Singapore and the US, and are currently unavailable due to prior commitments.”
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