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Several social media users have been reposting a tweet saying the registrar’s office at the University of Oxford put up signage to address persistent questions on the educational attainment of presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. from the institution. The tweet is satirical.

The Feb. 5 post by the Twitter account Philippine Daily Sun carried a photo of a building with an inset of a signage that reads: “No more questions about F. Marcos Jr. allowed. No, he did not graduate here.”

There is no truth to the claim that such a statement was put up at any Oxford building.

Philippine Daily Sun represents itself as “the Nation’s Greatest News Source” but explicitly states on its page that it is a satire account.

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