A viral Facebook reel claiming that Vice President Sara Duterte will “never reach 2028” and is preparing to “go into hiding” like Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa is misleading. The video uses footage of GMA News that is entirely unrelated to the claims in the caption.
Published on Feb. 22, the viral video carrying separate pictures of the vice president, former president Rodrigo Duterte, Dela Rosa and Bong Go in the upper portion, and a video clip of GMA News anchors Mel Tiangco, Vicky Morales and Emil Sumangil below it, carries this text:
“MANANAGOT KAYO!!! MALULUSAW NA TALAGA ANG PAMILYA DUTERTE DAHIL SA KABULASTUGAN, MAMAMATAY TAO, AT MAGNANAKAW.
HINDI NA AABOT SA 2028 AT MAGTATAGO NA SI SARA KATULAD NI BATO
(You will be held accountable!!! The Duterte family is finally going to crumble because of their lies and for being killers and thieves. Sara will not even reach 2028; she will go into hiding like Bato did).”
In the video itself, the GMA anchors were reporting that the country’s top two leaders were facing controversy. There is no mention of Duterte going into hiding.
President Bongbong Marcos has been accused of using illegal drugs, while the vice president was accused of involvement in “Oplan Tokhang” when she was still mayor of Davao City. Both were subjects of impeachment, but the complaints against Marcos had been dismissed while Duterte’s have yet to be taken up by the House Committee on Justice.
Some Facebook users believed the video and left comments saying that the vice president had better be hiding, because she might end up detained like her father in The Hague.
The video uses clips of news anchors from GMA Integrated News, which did not mention anything about the vice president going into hiding. The clip aired on Jan. 14, 2024 was used out of context.
While the vice president snubs press briefings from the past years, the then Davao City mayor has continued to make public appearances and on Feb. 18 announced her intention to run for president in 2028.
There are no official reports from any reputable news outlets stating that the vice president is in hiding or planning to do so.
The “hiding” narrative recently gained traction online due to two major developments this month: the filing of four impeachment complaints against her and the on-going confirmation of charges hearings against her father at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Meanwhile, Sen. Dela Rosa has been physically absent from public view and Senate sessions since November 2025 after Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla disclosed that he had seen a copy of an arrest warrant for him from the ICC.
As of writing, the video published by Bayaning Filipino Migrant Workers (created Jan. 25, 2024) has garnered 45,800 reactions; 3,900 comments; 6,600 shares; and two million views.
