CLAIM: Dr. Willie Ong promotes a “healing oil” and home remedy to cure hypertension on Facebook.
 
RATING: FALSE

 

Two Facebook pages used manipulated videos of Dr. Willie Ong to promote a supposed “healing oil” and a home remedy claimed to cure hypertension.

One of the altered videos featured Ong claiming that the “healing oil” helped him to recover from cancer.

The original clip of this video was from an interview on One PH’s “Sa Totoo Lang” program on Oct. 4, 2024, in which Ong shared an update about his medical condition.

TrueMedia.org detected the video to have misleading audio and unusual video patterns, with a confidence level of 57%. 

The other edited video combined different clips of Sen. Raffy Tulfo and Ong to make it appear that Tulfo was interviewing Ong about a home remedy for hypertension.

The original clip of Tulfo used in the edited video was from his program that aired on Feb. 13, 2021.

The original clip of Ong, however, could not be traced as of writing. 

TrueMedia.org detected the video to have AI-generated audio, with a confidence level of 93%, and unusual video patterns, with a confidence level of 65%. Leigh San Diego


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