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The video is AI-generated and came from a TikTok account with a history of posting AI-generated content of a non-existent news outlet
Claim: A video shows foreign officials mocking Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary Claire Castro about her statement that Vice President Sara Duterte does not need an “attack dog.”
Rating: FALSE
Why we fact-checked this: The Facebook video bearing the claim has 1.4 million views, 24,900 reactions, 2,000 comments, and 6,000 shares as of writing.
The video features two clips. In the first clip, a woman is shown saying, “The Vice President definitely doesn’t need an attack dog anymore. So, you know what I mean.” The second shows a different woman saying, “Indeed, Anteh Claire is right, the Vice President doesn’t need an attack dog. That crown belongs to you, Anteh Claire.”
Text overlaid on the video states: “Kahit ibang bansa alam na alam nila ang pamamalakad ng ating gobyerno. Claire Castro pinagtatawanan sa ibang bansa sa news channel. Napapahiya ka na kaya magbitiw ka na sa bagay pakapalan lang ng mukha yan. Nakakahiya talaga… Pinagtatawanan na lang siya ng mga taga-ibang bansa. Sana sa 2028 makabawi na at makaahon na ang bansa natin. Dahil kawawa na talaga ang bansang Pilipinas ngayon. God save our country.”
(Even other countries know how our government operates. Claire Castro is being ridiculed on news channels in other countries. You should resign since you’re ashamed now; after all, that’s just you being thick-faced. It’s embarrassing… Foreigners are just making fun of her. Hopefully, our pitiful country will recover and rise by 2028. God save our country.)
The facts: The video is AI-generated. The clip originally came from a user named ThrillChaser on TikTok, who posts various AI-generated videos of a non-existent news channel called “ThrillChaser News.”
In a fact check of a similar AI-generated video, online news and fact-checking site PressOne debunked the existence of the “ThrillChaser News” outfit in the Philippines.
Manipulated context: The AI-generated video uses audio that quotes Castro’s response to a remark by Office of the Vice President spokesperson Ruth Castelo. Upon assuming her post in early July, Castelo said that she would not be Duterte’s attack dog.
“I’m not an attack dog. So, not being an attack dog, I will not go on the offensive,” Castelo said in a July 9 press briefing.
When asked for a reaction on July 10, Castro responded, “VP Sara doesn’t need any more an attack dog.”
No reports: The video also falsely claims, without proof, that foreign officials are criticizing Castro and are ridiculing her in news programs.
Castro, however, has earlier been on the receiving end of comments from Nicholas Kaufman, former president Rodrigo Duterte’s legal counsel in his International Criminal Court (ICC) case.
Kaufman dismissed Castro’s statements regarding the defense’s request to submit a Senate committee report on Duterte’s arrest to the ICC, to which Castro said that “he [Kaufman] should do better than that.”
“I’d kindly thank Claire Castro not to interfere with the job that I’m doing, just as much as I wouldn’t interfere with the job that she’s doing: peddling the misinformation of her own administration,” Kaufman said in a GMA News interview. – Eirene Manatlao/Rappler.com
Eirene Manatlao is a senior journalism student at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. An Aries Rufo Journalism Fellow of Rappler for 2025, she is also the associate feature editor of The Catalyst.
