A video posted on YouTube falsely claimed that 800,000 people attended the grand rally of presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and his UniTeam slate in General Trias City, Cavite on March 22, 2022.
The 10-minute video, uploaded by user KHOPARS VLOG on the same day as the rally, already had over 600 likes and 7,000 views as of writing.
The video showed clips from the rally and claimed in the title that it “broke the record” after attendees reached more than 800,000.
Similar claims on Facebook, including one saying that the rally was included in the Guinness World Records, have already been rated as false by independent fact-checks.
Earlier, the Cavite police said that attendees were estimated to have reached only 80,000.
This crowd estimate also belies the claim of Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla who said that as many as 140,000 people attended the grand rally of Marcos, his running mate Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio and members of their senatorial slate.
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