Several YouTube videos and Facebook (FB) posts are claiming that former president Rodrigo Duterte bid farewell to his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, following her supposed death. These are false.
The earliest copy of the spurious video, published on Feb. 20, carried the headline:
“VP Sara Duterte, NamaaIam na! RODRIGO Duterte, EMOSYONAL sa SINAPIT ng ANAK! PBBM.
(VP Sara Duterte has passed away! RODRIGO Duterte, EMOTIONAL over what happened to his daughter! PBBM)”
Two other YouTube videos bore similar headlines, with one even claiming in the text overlay on its thumbnail:
“TINAPOS ni SARA ang SARILI nyang BUHAY (Sara ended her own life)”
The thumbnails of these fraudulent videos featured several photos of the former president appearing to be grieving beside a coffin, kissing it, and crying over it.
Other copies of these claims resurfaced on Facebook early this March, shared by three pages accompanied by the caption:
“SHOCK: VP Sara Duterte, Heartbreaking News LEAKED! Rodrigo Duterte BROKEN and EMOTIONAL Over His Daughter’s Shocking Fate! PBBM’s Surprising Reaction Revealed…”
The three FB posts used the same mourning photos of the former president as seen in the YouTube video thumbnails, and cited identical articles from morenews247.com,philipstoire.info, and hotnewsnowus.com to falsely imply the vice president’s death.
Read the full story on VERA Files Fact Check.
