Claim: Students are required to join the Leni Rally in Cebu
Category: False
Complete Details: In its Facebook post, We Are One Pilipinas posted a picture of a memo released by the Dean of College of Criminal Justice of the University of Cebu requiring interns and ROTC students to attend the People's Grand Rally on April 21, 2022, to perform crowd control and security aspect.
Why we fact-check this: The user’s post purports to deceive its viewers by inferring that the Dean is making attendance at the rally mandatory for all students.
(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.)
