“Vice President Leni Robredo volunteered to appear with President Rodrigo Duterte in an infomercial to help boost public confidence in the vaccine against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).”
What Vera Files found
Contrary to the claim of Palace Spokesman Harry Roque, Vice President Leni Robredo did not volunteer but only expressed willingness to appear in a COVID-19 vaccine infomercial with President Duterte in response to a proposal of Sen. Joel Villanueva.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Harry Roque made this claim around 26 May 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 3 June 2021, 8 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Harry Roque has 50 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 31 of them false or fake, 18 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/hM1UHHR5pJQ?t=5020
- pcoo.gov.phhttps://pcoo.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20210526-Talk-to-the-People-of-President-R…
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