CLAIM: A student expressed opposition to Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment in a street interview.
RATING: FALSE
A video featuring a student supposedly opposing the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte has been confirmed as content manipulated through artificial intelligence (AI).
The deepfake video was uploaded on June 15 by a Facebook page that framed the clip as evidence that Duterte was being unfairly targeted. The caption reads: “You want justice but your justice is selective.”
In the manipulated video, the student is asked: “Pabor ka ba sa impeachment ni VP Sara?” (Are you in favor of VP Sara’s impeachment?), to which the student responds with apparent disapproval of the impeachment.
Later that same day, Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa shared the video on his own page, adding: “Mabuti pa mga bata nakakaintindi sa mga pangyayari. Makinig kayo mga yellow at mga komunista!”
(“Even the children understand what’s going on. It’s time you listen—especially you ‘yellows’ and communists!”)
However, analysis using an AI video detection tool found that 89% of the footage displayed strong evidence of manipulation, including lip-sync inconsistencies and audio mismatches—clear signs of tampering.
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