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FACT CHECK: No, Drilon did not sleep through the UP-Ateneo game

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Agence France-Presse

<p>Multiple Facebook posts have shared a photo they claim shows opposition senator Franklin Drilon sleeping at a major basketball game between the nation’s top colleges. The claim is false and the image was altered.</p><p>Posts such as <a href="http://archive.is/w2eP1" target="_blank">this</a> and <a href="https://archive.fo/21Gzu" target="_blank">this</a> have shared a photo, which claims to show Drilon asleep during the Season 81 finals between University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila University. </p><p>The games drew a lot of attention on social networks and in local media as it was the UP men’s <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/11/28/18/at-long-last-up-fighting-maroons-top-adamson-for-1st-uaap-finals-trip-in-32-years" target="_blank">first time</a> in the UAAP title series in 32 years. </p><p>Here is a screenshot of one of the misleading posts:</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/12/13/facebook_post2_drilon.jpg"/></figure></div><p>The caption, when translated to English, says: “How can UP Maroons not lose to ATENEO when this bringer of bad luck watched the game and slept through all the excitement bwahaha”.</p><p>The Fighting Maroons <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/12/01/18/uaap-finals-clinical-blue-eagles-take-fight-out-of-up-maroons-to-win-game-1" target="_blank">lost</a> to Ateneo. </p><p>Comments on the post indicated that some people believed the image of Drilon was genuine.</p><p>One comment, when translated to English, says: “Is he standing or sleeping? He can sleep in whichever position? Appalling”.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/12/13/comment_drilon_sleeping_3_blotted.jpg"/></figure></div><p>Another comment says in Tagalog: “He is really bullheaded. He doesn’t care, anywhere is fair game for him when it comes to sleeping. He is a senator who has no manners!”</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/12/13/comment_drilon_sleeping2_blotted.jpg"/></figure></div><p>A reverse image search traced the photo of Drilon back to a tweet from local broadcaster ABS-CBN showing him at the game.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Senators Sonny Angara, Frank Drilon and Dick Gordon are here at the MOA Arena to watch the UP-Ateneo game <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UAAPSeason81?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UAAPSeason81</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UAAPFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UAAPFinals</a> | via <a href="https://twitter.com/shiereyes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@shiereyes</a> <a href="https://t.co/wxhT3cLTha">pic.twitter.com/wxhT3cLTha</a></p>— ABS-CBN News (@ABSCBNNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1068783169640546304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2018</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Here is a screenshot of that image:</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/12/13/drilon_awake_uaap_0.jpg"/></figure></div><p>ABS-CBN tweeted the photo on December 1, the day of the <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/12/01/18/live-blog-ateneo-blue-eagles-vs-up-fighting-maroons-game-1-season-81-uaap-finals" target="_blank">first finals</a> game between UP and Ateneo. </p><p>The altered version used in the Facebook posts appeared on December 7.</p><p>The images are identical, apart from Drilon’s head. Key details like a man holding a mobile phone to the left of the senator and a laughing woman behind him are the same in both images.</p><p>A reverse image search of Drilon sleeping traced the photograph back to a series of 2017 Twitter posts with the hashtag #FireDrilon. </p><p>Here is a screengrab of one of the tweets:</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/12/13/senate_hearing_tweet_2017.jpg"/></figure></div><p>The hashtag emerged after Drilon was caught sleeping during a Senate hearing on August 23, 2017.</p><p>This is a video of the hearing and Drilon can be seen asleep at 1:04:18 in the clip.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aNrF8rrZF-I?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Drilon is a <a href="https://liberal.ph/photo-liberal-party-national-executive-council-neco/" target="_blank">member</a> of the opposition Liberal Party and a critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.</p><p>The post has been shared hundreds of times by Facebook groups which support Duterte.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/12/13/ct_shares_drilon1.png"/></figure></div>

<p>Multiple Facebook posts have shared a photo they claim shows opposition senator Franklin Drilon sleeping at a major basketball game between the nation’s top colleges. The claim is false and the image was altered.</p>

Multiple Facebook posts have shared a photo they claim shows opposition senator Franklin Drilon sleeping at a major basketball game between the nation’s top colleges. The claim is false and the image was altered.