Misleading

Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said “don’t mess with us” in February last year in answer to suggestions to place Cebu under lockdown.

But a TikTok video posted on April 20 by @fsansmarcos7 misleadingly implied that Garcia was responding to a now-deleted tweet that the camp of Vice President and presidential bet Leni Robredo doesn’t need Cebu to win the election.

Garcia and her One Cebu party recently endorsed Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s candidacy. The tweet had referred to Marcos, nicknamed Bongbong, as “LBM,” a twist on his other nickname, “BBM.”

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