Reelectionist Senator Leila de Lima bewailed Tuesday, April 12 the spread of fake news against the eldest daughter of Presidential aspirant and Vice President Leni Robredo peddled by groups ‘’obviously aiming to derail the Vice President’s campaign".
De Lima described the people behind the reported circulation of a fake sex video of Robredo’s daughter, Aika Robredo, as ‘’toxic and utterly vile".
“As a woman, as a mother and as a victim of weaponized misogyny driven by dirty politics, I join all decent Filipinos in condemning the latest attempt to damage VP Leni’s campaign through the spread of vile fake news about members of her family,” she said in her dispatch from Camp Crame No. 1245.
Recently, links to a fabricated sex video targeting Robredo’s eldest daughter surfaced on social media and Google search engine.
Robredo’s camp already branded the spread of said video as a “malicious fabrication", saying it is an obvious ploy to distract supporters of the Vice President.
Lawyer Barry Gutierrez, spokesperson of Robredo, said their lawyers are studying their options for legal action. He also said that they have reported the links to the platforms concerned so all of those would be taken down.
The detained lady senator from Bicol maintained that it is already “too late to break the wave of support for VP Leni by such a pathetic attempt to bring the ‘Robredo’ name down to the level of her morally corrupt detractors".
“They are threatened by VP Leni’s strength and, more importantly, the strength of the ever-growing support for her Presidential run,” she said.
De Lima, who has been continually subjected to disinformation and fake news by some sinister quarters, said “demonizing women has been a go-to, and desperate, political strategy in the past six years".