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Ahead of Ferdinand Marcos Junior’s victory in the Philippine presidential election, an image of a news report was viewed tens of thousands of times in social media posts that claim it shows how his top rival Leni Robredo and the family of late president Corazon Aquino “fooled Filipinos in the past”. The image has been shared in a false context; it actually shows an AFP report about a pro-Marcos misinformation campaign that revamped his family brand and smeared Robredo.

The image shows an article in The Standard, an English-language newspaper in Hong Kong, with the headline “Filipinos fall for fake history”.

It was shared in a TikTok post on April 6, 2022, which has been viewed more than 29,400 times.

“Pity on you yellow-pinks and the Aquinos, a Newspaper from another country indicates how you fooled Filipinos in the past, you made them believe the lies for your own interest,” reads the Tagalog-language text overlaid on the image.

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