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  • 2020-12-02 (xsd:date)
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  • This photo has circulated in reports about Leni Robredo visiting a landslide site in 2018 (en)
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  • A photo that shows Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo standing among a crowd of people has been shared thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts which claim it shows her staging a PR stunt in the aftermath of Typhoon Vamco in November 2020. The posts claim Robredo brought a lot of cameramen but did not bring relief goods. However, this claim is misleading; the photo has in fact circulated online since 2018 in reports about a landslide site which Robredo visited. The photo was posted here on Facebook on November 15, 2020. It has been shared more than 2,500 times. A screenshot of the misleading post, taken on December 1, 2020 The photo is overlaid with text that reads: The Vice President visited in our place here in Itogon. She brought a lot of Cameramen. But she did not bring relief goods.. For the evacuess [sic]. It is captioned: Is this the leader you want?. Everything is just a dream. Vice President x Vlogger. The photo circulated in the aftermath of Typhoon Vamco , which hit the Philippine island of Luzon in November 2020, leaving more than 320,000 people stranded in evacuation centers. Robredo visited the heavily-inundated Cagayan province in the country’s northeast after Typhoon Vamco hit, as reported by AFP here . Multiple keyword searches on Google, however, found no news reports to indicate she visited the municipality of Itogon , located in the separate province of Benguet. Social media users appeared to believe the photo in the misleading posts was recent. One person wrote: And without social distancing ,faceshield and face mask, the v.p. is very stupid. The same photo was shared alongside a similar claim on Facebook here , here and here . The claim is misleading. A Google reverse image search, followed by keyword searches, found the same photo in this September 28, 2018 Facebook post, published by a regional branch of the state-run Philippine Information Agency. The photo is captioned, in part: Vice President Leni Robredo visited the command post at 070, Ucab in Itogon, Benguet where she saw the ground zero and the eroded portion of a mountain that killed more than 50 individuals during the height of typhoon Ompong last week. Below is a screenshot comparison of the photo in the misleading posts (L) and the photo in the PIA Facebook post (R): Screenshot comparison The photo also corresponds with this photo, posted on Facebook on September 28, 2020 by Philippine media organisation News5, in a report about the same landslide in Itogon. Robredo also responded to the misleading posts in this November 23, 2020 Facebook post. Her statement reads, in part: FAKE NEWS ALERT. This picture was taken on September 28, 2018 following a landslide in Itogon, Benguet. Below is a screenshot of her Facebook post: (en)
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