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“Lumad" refers to just one tribe around Cebu and "not all tribes in Mindanao.”
Lorraine Marie Badoy Claim dated 19 Feb 2021.
Vera Files rated thisFalse

What Vera Files found

The term "Lumad" was adopted by 15 of at least 18 “ethnic groups” in Mindanao that are neither Moro nor Christian in an assembly in 1986, based on a 2015 article published on the website of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

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In short

Lorraine Marie Badoy made this claim around 19 February 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 4 March 2021, 13 days later. Its rating was “False”.

Lorraine Marie Badoy has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 7 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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