A video comparing President Rodrigo Duterte and his predecessor Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III on their efforts to clean the Pasig River disinforms netizens in several ways.
The misleading video, published on Oct. 14, 2021, by Facebook page Jovanni guillena (created on Nov. 2, 2020) and revived this February by netizens, was titled: “Noynoy vs. Du30 a big difference.”
In the video segment about Aquino, a clip was shown of a man in a yellow shirt – supposedly the former president – falling into a creek during a cleanup operation.
Meanwhile, the segment discussing Duterte’s “efforts” featured a group of river warriors cleaning the body of water, as well as a report on a new ferry boat to boost the river transport service.
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