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FALSE: Robredo says motorcycle passengers should face backward

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FALSE: Robredo says motorcycle passengers should face backward
Robredo did not say this. The quote card is manipulated from one produced by Unang Hirit.
Claim:

Vice President Leni Robredo said motorcycle passengers should face backward while riding so barriers would no longer be needed.

On August 1, Facebook user Villanueva Peter posted a graphic attributing the following quote to Robredo: “Actually against din ako sa barrier na yan sa mga motorsiklo, siguro ma i a advice ko na lang, dapat siguro naka talikod ung angkas para hindi na kailangan ng barrier na yan.”

(Actually, I am also against those motorcycle barriers, perhaps the advice I can give is that the passenger can just face backward so there would be no need for that barrier.)

Screenshot FALSE Robredo quote on motorcycle barrier

As of August 4, more users had posted the graphic. These posts were flagged by Facebook Claim Check, the platform’s tool for detecting potentially false content. According to Claim Check, the post with the most engagement acquired 968 reactions, 70 comments, and 3,500 shares as of writing.

Rating: FALSE
The facts:

Robredo did not say this. The quote card was manipulated from one produced by Unang Hirit.

On Tuesday, August 4, Robredo’s staff released a statement saying the quote was fake.

The statement read, “Muli, malinaw na isa na naman itong pagtatangka na manlinlang at manira – bahagi ng walang tigil na kampanya ng kasinungalingan laban sa Bise Presidente.” (Again, it is clear that this is another attempt to deceive and to badmouth – part of the endless campaign of lies against the Vice President.)

Robredo also tweeted that she never said this.

A reverse image search showed that the original graphic was posted by Unang Hirit on July 30, containing an entirely different quote from Robredo. The original quote card read, “Linisin at pabilisin ang pagkalap ng datos ukol sa COVID-19. Kung magagawa ito, magiging mas matibay ang pinagmumulan ng mga desisyon, polisiya, at programa para mapigilan ang paglaganap ng virus. Hindi mapipigil ang pandemya kung basta mag-aabang na lang tayo ng bakuna. Kailangang maampat ang pagkalat nito sa lalong madaling panahon.

(Organize and speed up the collection of data on COVID-19. If this can be done, the basis for the decisions, policies, and programs to contain the spread of the virus will be more sound. The pandemic will not be contained if we are to wait for a vaccine only. We need to stop the spread in the soonest possible time.)

Robredo said this in a video posted on Wednesday, July 29, wherein she outlined suggestions on how the government can improve its COVID-19 response. In this speech, she did not say the alleged quote or anything else related to the motorcycle barrier.

Rappler also reached out to Villanueva Peter to ask for proof that Robredo made this statement but received no response as of writing.

Moreover, no news outlets reported Robredo making this suggestion.

Members of the opposition and other critics of the Duterte administration have been the target of numerous memes on social media which falsely attribute to these personalities statements that they supposedly said.

Rappler has debunked other fake quotes attributed to Robredo, including a supposed statement that the quarantine period for two people in one household would add up to 28 days, and an alleged quote that the lockdown should have been enforced as early as October 2019. – Loreben Tuquero/Rappler.com

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