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The original showed rows of stacked graves and did not feature the two political figures or their campaign posters.

Several Facebook (FB) accounts, including a page of a lawyer who was a former Malacañang social media consultant, published an alleged exchange between Vice President Leni Robredo and former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile. It needs context.

Gisalikay sa COMELEC ang pangangkon niadtong Abril 25, sa pag-ingon nga ang balota “gituyo sa pag-edit aron kon tan-awon wa mabutang ang ngan ni VP Robredo sa listahan sa Presidential candidates.”

Ang posts sa Abril 18 nigamit sa hulagway nga orihinal nga gi-tweet sa kamaguwangang anak ni Robredo nga si Aika usa ka adlaw sa wa pa kini, nagpasabot nga ang imahe nagpakita nga ang bise presidente ug polling body nagtagbo aron planuhon ang pagpanikas sa eleksiyon. Sayop kini ug way basehanan.

Several posts on Facebook called out Vice President Leni Robredo for her use of the term “in a good place” to describe a pleasant condition.

Only five groups on the list are in the Commission on Elections’ official list of party list contenders in the May 9 polls.

COMELEC debunked the claim on April 25, saying that the ballot was “deliberately edited to make it appear that VP Robredo’s name is missing from the list of Presidential candidates.”

A photo showing Vice President Leni Robredo and officials from the Commission on Elections is circulating with false context.

Netizens believed a satirical photo supposedly taken from Vice President Leni Robredo’s April 23 grand rally in Pasay City.

Photo of a ballot in New Zealand was edited remove Vice President Leni Robredo's name in the official list of presidential candidates.

A Facebook video insinuated that Israel is talking to Ukraine to facilitate the delivery of laser weapons against drones and missiles. This claim has no basis.

A fake quote card bearing Rappler’s logo claimed that Vice President Leni Robredo said her and her running mate’s victory in the 2022 polls is guaranteed.

Former broadcaster Jay Sonza misled people by using a different photo in a Facebook “congratulatory” post on the number of attendees in the April 23 #ArawNa10To! rally held in Pasay City for Vice President Leni Robredo.

Contrary to what one Facebook post claimed, presidential candidate and senator Ping Lacson held various positions under the government’s executive branch.

The claims were based on the conjectures by a reporter in soliciting a reaction from three presidential candidates.

FB pages supporting Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte-Carpio published an edited image to claim that a million people gathered at Robredo’s Cebu grand rally.

Robredo never referred to the Barzaga family as traitors or idiots.

Exit poll results like the one currently circulating online should not be considered a reliable source to establish a trend in the outcome of elections. 

Despite the hashtags #SatireNews and #parody indicated in the post, some netizens believed the story was true.

Netizens revived an old report about the charges filed against Vice President Leni Robredo in 2019 to insinuate that she does not have a “clean record.”

A reader asked VERA Files Fact Check to look into the claim.

These studies were conducted, however, to demonstrate ivermectin’s safety and efficacy as an antiparasitic drug and not as a COVID-19 medicine.

Akesis Holistic Health’s post also included a misleading claim on the use of the drug abroad, and recommended doses for it.