To seemingly lend credibility to online claims, a news card by a reputable media organization was deliberately altered to show a list of 22 names of supposed individuals who signed acknowledgment receipts tied to the Office of the Vice President’s confidential funds. This is fake and contradicts public records.
Posted as early as Aug. 3 by a Facebook page, the social media card featured invented names, including “Miggy Mango,” “Fernando Tempura,” “Chippy Mcdonald,” and “Jay Kamote,” among others. Some of the entries were fictional pun names that, when pronounced, resembled sexually suggestive phrases.
The graphic was subsequently reposted across FB, X, Threads and even Reddit from Aug. 3 to 4. Believing the list to be genuine, some netizens criticized it for containing “vulgar” names.
In an Aug. 4 statement, Philstar.com, the official digital arm of the STAR Group of Publications, disowned the “altered meme” version of its original impeachment trial card that showed only 11 names mentioned during the proceedings. The authentic one also bore the news outlet’s logo at the bottom right corner, which was edited out in the spurious copy.
On Aug. 3, prosecution witness and former Commission on Audit-Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office auditor Roderick Wamil identified acknowledgement receipts submitted by the OVP to the state auditing agency to prove its disbursements of P125 million in secret funds within the last 11 days of 2022.
The documents bore the following names of supposed recipients:
- Mary Grace Piattos
- Renan Piatos
- Nova Santos
- Mico Harina
- Janice Marie Revilla
- Patty Ting
- Andi Lim
- Alejandro Pikit
- Feonna Biong
- Sisfrunio Balsac
- Gabriel Bisaya
Contrary to what the altered graphic claimed, only 11 alleged recipients of the OVP’s confidential expenditures emerged based on selected acknowledgment receipts presented by private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan on the 11th day of Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial.
Their identities, which appeared to be wordplay, resembled common food items and Filipino terms. One of them, “Mary Grace Piattos,” had earlier been flagged by lawmakers during House hearings for combining the names of a well-known coffee shop and a local potato chip brand.
The doctored news card surfaced during the fourth week of the impeachment trial that focused on Duterte’s alleged misuse of confidential funds.
In his testimony before the Senate sitting as an impeachment court, Wamil flagged the non-compliance of the Duterte-led office with Joint Circular No. 2015-01, which governs the entitlement, release, use, reporting and audit of confidential and/or intelligence funds.
He likewise raised other discrepancies such as the undated and late issuance of acknowledgement receipts, and the non-submission of supporting documents for some of the OVP’s confidential expenses.
The earliest posts carrying the altered graphic by FB pages Jenny Thalia III (created as InaMocha Partylist on Jan. 19, 2021) and the truth revealed (created on March 28, 2026) have collectively gotten 4,682 reactions; 537 comments and 989 shares. Other copies on X also drew significant traction, with three posts garnering 4,630 total engagements.
