Manila, April 13 -- The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Presidential Communications Office and the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) for a coordinated and whole-of-government response against the deliberate manufacture and spread of false information and media.

Secretaries Frederick Vida of DOJ, Dave Gomez of PCO and Henry Aguda of DICT signed the MOA at the DOJ office in Manila, formalizing an inter-agency framework to protect public safety and national security from malicious information operations and to ensure a safer, more resilient cyber environment.

Under the agreement, the PCO will lead information dissemination, the DOJ will handle legal enforcem...