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A satirical post about actress-host Toni Gonzaga getting hospitalized for stressing out her vocal cords after attempting to hit high notes in her performances at presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s campaign rallies is being taken as fact by social media users.

On March 13, the Facebook (FB) page Cebu Dairy News published the post featuring an image of Gonzaga singing during Marcos’ campaign sortie in Laguna two days earlier with this text: “Toni suffers laryngitis, pleads Marcos supporters to show enthusiasm in rallies.”

Cebu Dairy News is a satirical FB page created in July 2021 that imitates the news site Cebu Daily News. It states on its homepage that its content is “all made-up and should not to be taken as factual.”

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