The TikTok campaign to rebrand ‘POGO Mayor’ Alice Guo
When Alice Guo rolled her eyes in Congress, a wave of TikTok “fan accounts” turned that moment into “napindot na si anger”—and helped recast her image just as she faced serious allegations.
When Alice Guo rolled her eyes in Congress, a wave of TikTok “fan accounts” turned that moment into “napindot na si anger”—and helped recast her image just as she faced serious allegations.
A VERA Files investigation uncovered a network of 45 TikTok accounts that exhibited signs of a coordinated campaign from May to December 2024 to boost Guo’s reputation as a progressive leader and defend her innocence, amid the probe on her alleged links to illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) during this period.
A clip of dismissed mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac supposedly criticizing Marikina City Rep. Maan Teodoro is circulating on Facebook. This is fake.
A fake quote card circulating online claims that dismissed mayor Alice Guo challenged Sen. Risa Hontiveros to investigate the alleged blank items in the bicameral report of the 2025 national budget.
A YouTube video falsely claims that dismissed mayor Alice Guo will be deported to China.
Si Go ay isa sa 17 senador na bumoto noong Hunyo 2, 2021 para sa Senate Bill No. 2232, na kinikilala ang pagiging lehitimo ng offshore online gaming at pagpapataw ng buwis sa mga POGO.
Go was one of the 17 senators who voted on June 2, 2021 for Senate Bill No. 2232, recognizing the legitimacy of offshore online gaming and taxing the POGOs.
AI-generated ang video na nagpapakitang niyakap nina DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos at PNP Chief Rommel Marbil si Alice Guo.
The video that showed Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos and PNP Chief Rommel Marbil hugging Alice Guo is AI-generated.
The controversial Alice Guo, the dismissed mayor of Bamban, Tarlac arrived at the Philippine Senate Monday, Sept. 9, wearing a bullet-proof vest for the continuation of the probe on the POGO.