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Several Facebook (FB) groups and pages are spreading an erroneous comparison of two photos taken during Vice President Leni Robredo’s Feb. 25 campaign rally in Iloilo.

One of the images showed a jam-packed crowd at nighttime and was labeled “Fake” and “Rappler Zoom shot.” The FB posts claim the media organization maliciously cropped the image, so it appears that the pro-Robredo crowd was more massive than the actual. Below the photo was the supposed “real” drone shot of the same event taken during the day, showing a more scattered attendance.

Both photos showed the people’s rally held at the Iloilo Sports Complex. And none was edited.

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