In a Feb. 28 Facebook (FB) post, a supporter of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. claimed that Vice President Leni Robredo had a cheat sheet during the presidential debate organized by CNN Philippines the previous day. Not true.
Robredo and eight other presidential hopefuls participated in said debate. Only Marcos declined CNN Philippines’ invitation due to conflict of schedule.
The netizen’s false claim used an 18-second clip from the two-hour and 50-minute-long forum that showed Robredo flipping through sheets of paper.
A text overlaid on the clip read “CHEATING?,” an allegation stressed by the netizen’s caption in its post: “Is this why Leni sounded prepared during the CNN debate?”
The pieces of paper Robredo was holding during the debate were not cheat sheets, but scratch papers provided by CNN Philippines to the presidential aspirants and were used for notetaking.
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