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Neither survey results nor mammoth crowds in campaign rallies can make a candidate win. But somehow, these indicate a candidate’s popularity or unpopularity. The actual votes we will cast next Monday are what will make candidates win.
Netizens believed a satirical photo supposedly taken from Vice President Leni Robredo’s April 23 grand rally in Pasay City. The original publisher clarified he intended the circulating image to be a joke. The satire image first surfaced on the day of the rally, supposedly showing a sea of pink-clad Robredo supporters swarming Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard. […]
“This information is incorrect,” Guinness World Records said.
All three posts flagged by VERA Files Fact Check ridiculed the rally.
A reader asked VERA Files Fact Check to look into the claim.
There were no ropes in the original.
The clip was a 25-second excerpt from a two-and-a-half-minute-long video.
None of the photos were edited.