Several Facebook (FB) groups and pages are spreading an erroneous screenshot of a news update by radio station Bombo Radyo Bacolod, which supposedly reported that over 70 million individuals attended Vice President Leni Robredo’s grand rally in Bacolod, Negros Occidental.
The false screenshot, which first appeared on March 12, contained text in English supposedly published by the station. It read: “LOOK More than 70 million people attended the Robredo-Pangilinan Grand People’s Rally at Paglaum Sports Complex, Bacolod City.”
The same day the untrue post surfaced, Bombo Radyo Bacolod disowned it on its official FB page. The station said FB’s auto-translate feature mistranslated their update and added that it does not publish any news stories or captions in English.
“The term ‘70mil’ was translated to 70 million instead of 70,000, ‘mil’ being thousand in the local dialect. Bombo Radyo Bacolod has nothing to do with this,” the organization further said in Hiligaynon, referring to the circulating screenshot.
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