A post on Threads claimed that former president Rodrigo Duterte was a recipient of the United States (U.S.) International Anti-Corruption Award. This is satire. The claim originated from a 2021 parody post.
Readers asked VERA Files Fact Check to verify claim on the quote card posted on Feb. 24, with the following caption:
“Sa lahat naging pangulo sa ating bansa si Tay Digong lang ang may award GALING sa U.S at higit sa lahat ANTI CORRUPTION pa..oi mga loyalist di yan fakenews sakit sa mata yan haha.”
(Among all the presidents of our country, only Tay Digong (ex-president Rodrigo Duterte) received this award FROM the U.S. and above all it had to do with ANTI-CORRUPTION… hey loyalists this is not fake news, you just have eye problems.)
The original image was posted by Cebu Dairy News, a Facebook (FB) satire page, on Oct. 11, 2021. Duterte received no such award.
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