Fact check: Despite lacking expertise, blogger claims Robredo has speech and mental problems

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In this March 6, 2020 photo, Vice President Leni Robredo speaks at the graduation of Leaders for Excellence and Public Service Mayors’ Fellowship Program Batch 3 at the Quezon City Reception House.

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MANILA, Philippines — A blogger who runs a YouTube channel that has taken numerous jabs at Vice President Leni Robredo has recently claimed in a new video that Robredo has 'palilalia', a speech condition that makes people repeat words and phrases.

 

CLAIM: "Leni has a limitation in her thinking because of this speech disorder. It's like her mind isn't running straight. Something in her mind is shaken up," he said in the video.

 

RATING: This is false. 

 

FACTS:

 

What the full post said

 

"THIS IS NOT A JOKE - VP Leni is suffering from a psychiatric disorder. Like broken circuitry in the motherboard of a computer," vlogger Manuel Mejorada said in a tweet in mixed Filipino and English. 

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/11/08/2139636/fact-check-despite-lacking-expertise-blogger-claims-robredo-has-speech-and-mental-problems

 

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