Mocha Uson fell flat in her attempt to win a seat in the House. Photo: Twitter

Philippine midterm elections: Mocha Uson, ‘queen of fake news’, fails to win House seat

The 37-year-old has a varied résumé: she’s a dancer, model, sex coach and a former assistant secretary of the presidential communications office
But this week the controversial Duterte ally failed to add ‘congresswoman’ to the list

Topic | The Philippines

Alan Robles

Published: 9:45pm, 15 May, 2019

Updated: 11:19am, 16 May, 2019

Mocha Uson fell flat in her attempt to win a seat in the House. Photo: Twitter

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Alan Robles

Alan Robles has been a journalist for more than 30 years and has written for the SCMP since 2002. A freelance foreign correspondent specialising in politics, development, foreign affairs, science, environment and IT, he has a humour column at abs-cbnnews.com and runs the political satire site hotmanila.ph. He lectured for 12 years on digital media at the Internationales Institut fuer Journalismus in Berlin.