Claim: Robredo is using religion to edge out other Presidential candidates
Rating: False
Complete Details: The Facebook page KLC Happy Thoughts and Cellphone Repair posted a collage of pictures showing Presidential candidate and incumbent Vice President Ma. Leonor ‘Leni’ Robredo attending a Catholic Mass.
The post is insinuating that she is just doing this for a show to mislead the public that she is a devout Catholic.
Why we fact Check this: Posts like this attempt to influence their viewers to think that the person in question makes a mockery of religion by continuously trying to appear religious.
The post has garnered 8,800 reactions and 424 shares as of this writing.
(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.)
