THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday appealed to Filipinos abroad to avoid posting unverified information on social media that may unnecessarily strain Philippine relations with the host state.

A social media post about a Filipina household service worker in Bahrain who was supposedly subjected to genital mutilation by her employer went viral but turned out later that the alleged incident did not happen.

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