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Netizens are using a three-year-old photo of journalist Atom Araullo holding a pink hand banner to wrongly claim he is supporting the presidential candidacy of Vice President Leni Robredo.

‘Atom Araullo is a Kakampink’ says one caption. ‘Atom Araullo for Leni’ says another.

While pink is indeed Robredo’s campaign color for the May polls, the photo of Araullo is not at all related to the upcoming Philippine general election.

There is no legitimate report or record of Araullo publicly endorsing any of the ten candidates vying for the country’s top post.

Reverse image search revealed that the circulating photo was first published on Feb. 23, 2019 in both the official Facebook (FB) page and Twitter account of the Gabriela Women’s Party.

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