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The eight-minute clip tackled only one case.

The radio station disowned the claim.

She was talking about a recent disinformation narrative targeting Robredo.

This is not the first time Gonzaga figured in a satirical post that misled people.

In a Feb. 25 interview with acting Palace spokesperson Martin Andanar, Duterte said he is not certain about endorsing a candidate in the May 9 elections. “I may or I may not but preferably I’d like to stay neutral.”

The term “lugaw” has been used by trolls and detractors to mock Robredo, after her supporters served rice porridge to raise funds for her campaign during the 2016 elections.

VERA Files Fact Check, in response to a reader request to look into the viral clip, found that the paratrooping military exercise shown in the video took place at Fort Bragg in the United States almost six years ago.

There were no ropes in the original.

Presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos claimed that galunggong or round scad, which he stressed was "for the poor," is the fish “easiest to raise.” There is no basis for his claim because research on galunggong aquaculture is still ongoing, and experts have no conclusions on its feasibility.

There was no photo of Perakov. And there are no reports of a pilot with that name who perished recently.

Neither Duterte nor Calida ever made a pronouncement to take away any license of Jimenez’s.

Presidential candidate Dr. Jose “Joey” Montemayor, who is against mandatory vaccination, claimed that the number of fully vaccinated individuals in the Philippines has not reached 30 million as of early March. This is false.

Lawyer Larry Gadon, who is running for a seat in the Senate for the second time, inaccurately claimed that the biggest wind energy producer in Southeast Asia is in Ilocos Norte.

A TikTok video repeated unproven and false claims about the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) and the wealth of the Marcos family. It gained a million views and a lot of interactions on Facebook before it was deleted.

The clip was a 25-second excerpt from a two-and-a-half-minute-long video.

This needs context. The decades-old video showed Marcos making remarks about the country’s mutual defense agreement with the U.S.

The statement is fake. No official documents, speeches, statements or legitimate news reports carry the text in the fabricated graphic.

The pieces of paper Robredo was holding during the debate were not cheat sheets, but scratch papers provided by CNN Philippines to the presidential aspirants and were used for notetaking.

None of the photos were edited.

An old election campaign video of Vice President and presidential aspirant Leni Robredo was altered with the use of unrelated images to present misleading information about her.

‘Atom Araullo is a Kakampink’ says one caption. ‘Atom Araullo for Leni’ says another.

Robredo’s spokesperson Barry Gutierrez cited a “conflict of schedule” as the reason for the vice president’s non-attendance.

The video is called a “cheap fake,” or a low-quality version of deepfakes, which are digitally altered videos or images to show people in situations that never occurred.

Carlos did not allude to the vice president in her remark.