Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday disputed claims on social media that her office distributed spoiled hot meals for frontliners at a hospital in Quezon City.
Robredo reacted to social media posts by calling out the individuals behind it, saying they could be held “criminally liable” for posting “fake news.”
A certain Jacques Phillip said Robredo’s spokesman Barry Gutierrez went to the hospital and personally asked frontliners to be “quiet” about the incident. Another individual also tweeted, “Barry Gutierrez went to the hospital to give financial aid to frontliners who got food poisoned from the food sent by Leni.”“This has never happened. I never went to this hospital. My spokesman, Atty Barry Gutierrez said he has never visited any hospital during the entire duration of the ECQ/GCQ nor ever called this particular hospital,” Robredo wrote.
In a separate post, Gutierrez issued his own denial on the issue as he warned social media users that cyber libel’s penalty is up to 12 years.“Let us report him plus all those who reposted. Take screenshots of everything, including those who reposted because we will go after all of them,” Robredo said.
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