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  • 2021-01-25 (xsd:date)
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  • Hoax report shows doctored photo of Philippine President Duterte 'at wake for police killing victims' (en)
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  • A video circulating online purports to show Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte attending a wake for a mother and her son who were killed by a police officer in the northern Philippines in December 2020. The clip has been viewed more than a hundred thousand times on YouTube and shared in multiple Facebook and blog posts. The claim is false: the video contains a doctored photo of the wake that has been manipulated to include an image of Duterte. The president did not visit the wake, a spokesperson for his office told AFP on January 22, 2021. The video was shared here on YouTube on December 25, 2020. It has been viewed more than 140,000 times. A screenshot of the misleading post, taken on January 22, 2021 The video’s title reads: SHOCKING: President Duterte VISITED the WAKE of GREGORIO FAMILY. The post circulated after the fatal shooting of Sonya Gregorio and her son Frank by police officer Jonel Nuezca in the northern Philippines in December 2020. CNN reported on the case in a report published here on December 21, 2020. In the opening 12 seconds of the footage, it shows an image that purports to show Duterte visiting the wake. The video then shows other images of Nuezca and purported visuals from the shooting incident. At the video's one-minute 51-second mark, a voiceover narrates: Based on reports that are spreading, President Duterte supposedly visited the Gregorio family wake to offer condolences. The video was also shared on Facebook here , here and here ; and in blogs here , here and here alongside a similar claim. The claim is false. Combined reverse image and keyword searches on Google traced the original photo of the wake to this Facebook post published by the Philippine National Police (PNP) on December 22, 2020. The original photo shows police Chief Debold Sinas, not Duterte, visiting the Gregorio wake. The post is captioned in part: PNP Chief, Police General Debold M Sinas, with PRO3 Regional Director, Police Brig Gen, Valeriano De Leon (left) extends his personal condolences to Mr. Florentino Gregorio (3rd from right), patriarch of the orphaned family of the late Mrs. Sonya Gregorio and son Frank who both died in a shooting incident involving an off-duty policeman in Paniqui, Tarlac. The PNP’s photo had been digitally altered to insert an image of Duterte. The image of Duterte was originally published by the presidential communications office here on January 6, 2020 in an unrelated press release. Its caption reads: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte greets some members of the House of Representatives in attendance during the ceremonial signing of the General Appropriations Act (GAA) of 2020. Below is a set of screenshot comparisons showing the doctored photo (L) with its corresponding sources indicated within blue frames (R): Screenshot comparison A spokesperson for the presidential communications office told AFP Duterte had not attended the wake, in a text sent by Viber messaging app on January 22, 2021. Philippine fact-checking initiative FactRakers also debunked the misleading claim here . (en)
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