PETER Anthony Abaya, the bro-ther of the late former president Benigno Simeon 'Noynoy' Aquino 3rd's transport and communications secretary Joseph Abaya, should explain his role in transforming the small tech firm Simularity Inc. into a clever generator of fake news against China in its territorial dispute with the Philippines. This is important to us as a nation, as I hope everyone will realize after reading this column.

The tiny Florida-based tech company, Simularity, in the past week, had gone on a campaign to claim that Chinese vessels were heavily polluting the Union Banks area in the Spratlys with what it outrightly referred to - in its supposed scientific paper - as 'poop' and 'shit.'