A fake quote card attributed to Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach, where she allegedly advised people to avoid negative campaigning, is circulating on Facebook (FB).
The fabricated graphic used a logo of CNN International to look more credible, and attributed to Wurtzbach the remarks below, which were rife with grammatical errors:
“Don’t just believe in negative campaigns, i really do believe that if your heart is pure and ready to serve our country towards a better future then all you gonna do is to promote yourself and not by destroying figures of your co-candidate it may look desperate.
I do believe that people who does negative campaigning is really on pressure and threatened because he/she is behind by the other candidate (sic).”
CNN has published no such quote card.
Wurtzbach denied uttering the made-up quote in a March 28 tweet and called it “fake news.”
“Hello po! I did not say this. Let us not spread fake news. Don’t believe all quotes that you see online,” Wurtzbach wrote on Twitter in response to a netizen who asked her about the circulating social media card.
The beauty queen elaborated in a March 29 FB post: “Hindi po galing sa CNN yan at lalong hindi ko ako ganyan mag english (That’s not from CNN and besides, I don’t speak English like that).”
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