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Multiple Facebook reels have reshared a video supposedly of a street interview with students describing the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte as “selective justice.” The clip was made using artificial intelligence.

At least six different videos featured an interviewer asking three young men if they were in favor of Duterte’s impeachment. Their replies:

“Man 1: No… because it is obviously politically motivated.

Man 2: I mean, maraming may confidential funds sa gobyerno, iba nga bilions pa (many have confidential funds in the government, others even have billions), but why single out the VP? They want justice but their justice is selective.

Man 3: If these politicians are really serious in cleaning up the government, then investigate all and isama na rin nila mga sarili nila (they should include themselves, too).”

The original video was published by the FB page AY GRABE on June 14. The page describes itself as “[featuring] ideas, opinions, news, stories and events through the use of AI.”

The post carried the hashtag #AI, and was labeled by Meta as AI-generated. Meta places an AI content label on posts where “industry standard AI image indicators [were] detected” or if a post author indicates AI-generated content.

The video also bore a watermark from Veo, an AI video generation tool by Google.

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