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Local vlogger Rosanel Demasudlay holds a heart-shaped “virginity soap” bar in front of the camera and assures her hundreds of YouTube followers it can be safely used to “tighten” their vaginas.A person holds a packet of Bar Bilat, a brand of ‘virginity soap’ not approved by the Food and Drug Administration and advertised on social media platforms with bogus claims it can be safely used to ‘tighten’ vaginas, inside a laboratory at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City.
While there is no vetting of posts before they go live, Facebook has a multi-stage, largely automated, review system to check ads before they are published. A few months later, Demasudlay admitted in another video that the soap had left her “itchy to the point of bleeding”—but she kept promoting it.Philippine doctors worried about the explosion of medical misinformation during the pandemic began posting videos providing free information about common health conditions.
Filipinos were particularly vulnerable to false or misleading health claims due to a shortage of doctors in the country and their heavy internet usage, said Eleanor Castillo, a public health expert at the University of the Philippines.
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