Claim: The poster showing the list of celebrities in the People’s Rally in Bacolod City is claimed to be the list of the Senatorial lineup of Robredo and Pangilinan.
Category: False
Complete Details: A Facebook post by KLC Happy Thoughts and Cellphone Repair shows a poster of the Negros Occidental People’s Rally with a list of celebrities and entertainers. The post is then captioned “Wow nakaka impress yung Senatorial Lineup ng Kakampinks.”
Why we fact-check this: Despite the obvious attempt at sarcasm in this post, this needs to be flagged as it has already garnered 760 shares as of this writing. This is an attempt to try to mislead the readers about who the real Senatorial slate is composed of.
(The Mindanao Gold Star Daily is part of the more than 100 organizations online initiative from media, coalitions, civil society, business, academe, law, and the religious sector called ‘#FactsFirstPH.’ The initiative aims to collectively push for truth-telling and debunking lies through four steps: fact-checking by news organizations; networking by civil society and grassroots groups; research and analysis by academic institutions; and seeking accountability by lawyers’ groups.)
