A clip of dismissed mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac supposedly criticizing Marikina City Rep. Marjorie Ann “Maan” Teodoro, who is running for mayor, is circulating on Facebook. This is fake.
Guo has never made any public statement against Teodoro. The clip was edited to make it appear she was hitting the mayoral bet’s purported “lack of platform.”
Uploaded on April 21, the 23-second video bore a clip of Guo from a Senate hearing on the operations of illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO). An anonymous voiceover interwoven in the clip asked questions between Guo’s responses in the hearing:
“May plataporma ba si Maan Teodoro?… Mga plano?… Natapos na projects?… Nakita mo ba na nagsabi si Maan ng mga plataporma niya para sa Marikina?.. Wala talagang nilalapag na plano?…
(Does Maan Teodoro have a platform [of governance]?… Plans?… Finished projects?… Did you see Maan mention her platforms for Marikina?… Did she really not mention any of her plans?)”
Guo was then shown to have replied:
“Wala po!… Sigurado po! …Wala po!… Hindi po! …Sigurado po ako!… Wala po!
(None!… I’m sure!… None!… No!… I’m sure!… Nothing!)”
The video was digitally altered. The voice asking the questions was interwoven into Guo’s clip to make it look like she was criticizing Maan Teodoro, wife of incumbent Marikina City Mayor Marcelino Teodoro.
Reverse image search showed that the clip was originally taken from Rappler’s livestream of the Senate probe on POGOs on May 22, 2024.
At the 1:24:52 mark of the original video, Guo was actually responding to questions about her marital status and involvement in POGO operations. There was no mention of Teodoro in the Senate probe.
Uploaded by FB page Alamat ni Kamote (created June 13, 2018 as IRISE), the altered video has so far received 39,423 interactions.
