A six-year-old news report about a bullet hitting the office window of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in 2015 was used in a Tiktok video to suggest there is an assassination attempt against the presidential aspirant.
The two-minute report by GMA News’ 24 Oras dated Aug. 3, 2015 was used in its entirety by TikTok user @aaaccee11 to mislead netizens. It carried the text: “BBM assassination 2022?” The video was uploaded on Tiktok on Jan. 31.
FB page Anti bias, created on Jan. 23, picked it up and reuploaded the TikTok clip the day after, and was captioned “Dilikado [sic] manok natin” (Our preferred candidate faces danger.)
Both clips appeared shortly after Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Jan. 30 that the National Bureau of Investigation is looking into the case of a TikTok user who posted an assassination threat against Marcos Jr. on the video sharing app.
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