A manipulated photo that shows Vice President Leni Robredo holding up a piece of paper with the text “Bong-Bong MARCOS FOR PRESIDENT” written on it has been circulating online since October last year.
It gained attention once more in the last week of January, after interviews of talk show host Boy Abunda with several presidential candidates were aired.
A reader asked VERA Files Fact Check to look into its veracity.
The circulating image is an altered copy of a screenshot from a January 2020 video uploaded on Robredo’s official Facebook (FB) page. The video was one of the vice president as she was serving lugaw (porridge) to families affected by the eruption of Taal Volcano that month in Tuy town, Batangas.
Thirty seconds into the clip, Robredo showed on camera a paper sign that read “LUGAW LENI,” a term critics use against her. In the circulating image, the Marcos endorsement replaced the text.
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