No, this video does not show a former Philippine president being thrown into a creek
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- Published on October 18, 2018 at 17:00
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- By AFP Philippines
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The video shows a group of people on a boat -- including a man in a yellow shirt, the signature color of Aquino’s political party.
The post, when translated to English, says: “Titanic 2018 version! Starring his ex president PINOY the abnormal! With Cabinet Members!
Aquino used to use the nickname PNoy, which is a contraction of president and his nickname Noynoy.
Below is the video:
A reverse image search of a screengrab from that video found that the footage first appeared online in 2016 in an Indian press report.
The report is headlined: Watch: Panaji mayor Surendra Furtado, officials fall into creek
AFP sent the video from the Facebook post to Surendra Furtado, then mayor of Panaji in southern India, and he confirmed that it was him in the footage.
"I had gone for an inspection of a newly-introduced weeding machine,” he said.
“The vessel lost its balance and we took a tumble. Nobody was injured."
Abigail Valte, Aquino’s spokeswoman, told AFP that the video does not show the former president.
“That’s not him,” she said.
The post has been shared over 38,000 times mainly by Facebook accounts with combined followers of nearly 1,400,000.
Most of the pages support Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is a political rival of Aquino.
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