Misleading

A Facebook (FB) post carried a TikTok clip of a spliced video that made Vice President and presidential candidate Leni Robredo look like she referred to herself as “lugaw” (rice porridge).

The clip was taken from a video of Robredo’s Feb. 24 campaign rally in Cebu. After editing, Robredo could be heard saying: “Lugaw man sa kanilang paningin, pero Leni is lugaw rin (Might look like porridge in their eyes, but Leni is porridge too).”

In the original campaign rally video, Robredo actually said: “Lugaw man sa kanilang paningin, pero Leni is the last man standing (Might look like porridge in their eyes, but Leni is the last man standing). She was reading a slogan created by one of her supporters.

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