Misleading

A two-year-old report on the sedition case filed against Vice President Leni Robredo has been resurrected this month to claim that she has a pending court case.

The circulating post is misleading. It used a 24 Oras report dated July 18, 2019, from GMA News about the Philippine National Police filing a complaint against Robredo and 37 others for their supposed involvement in the production and spread of the “Ang Totoong Narcolist” videos. They were accused of sedition, inciting to sedition, cyberlibel, libel, estafa, harboring a criminal, and obstruction of justice.

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