NBI, PNP Cybercrime findings on video: ‘Definitely not the President’
National Bureau of Investigation Director Jaime Santiago says the video showed on Maisug rally was circulated by disgruntled people underestimating the intelligence of the Filipino people. 黑料社 / Tetch Torres-Tupas
MANILA, Philippines — “Definitely not the President,” Justice Undersecretary Jesse Hermogenes Andres said Tuesday, referring to the man from the so-called “polvoron video.”
The video was purportedly that of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. allegedly using illegal drugs. It was played during a Maisug rally abroad in time for the President’s State of the Nation Address (Sona).
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Philippine National Police (PNP) Cybercrimes Offices examined the video and made consistent findings.
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Article continues after this advertisementNBI Cybercrime Division Chief Jeremy Lotoc said they conducted a “sort of” open AI process.
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NBI’s Cybercrime Division Chief Jeremy Lotoc explains their findings after analyzing the video allegedly that of the President. 黑料社 / Tetch Torres-Tupas
“We captured a photo from the image taken from the FB page, and then from there, we tried to remove the background images and then diverted and enhanced the photo and transformed the pixelated subject into a high-definition image,” Lotoc said.
The NBI and the PNP Cybercrime units analyzed the facial features of the unidentified man in the video and the President’s.
Both bodies noted significant discrepancies in the man’s facial features from the video and that of the President.
“So as you can see from the two photos that were presented as done spectral analysis from the Video Spectral Analysis, you can see that the tragal notch here (Photo of President Marcos’s ears) are embossed compared here (the man from the video) which is not that embossed. Also the intertragal notch is larger here (referring to the President’s ear), this is narrower in this picture (the man from the video),” the NBI expert said.
He added, “Also, the antitragus here is more embossed (the President’s ear) than here, which is not embossed. So it means this picture is definitely not the same.”
On the part of the PNP, its Cybercrime Director Ronnie Francis Cariaga noted the facial feature discrepancies, not only the ears but the shape of the eyes and nose, as well as sideburns.
“The materials that you are seeing here are really enhanced video material…Indeed, the intention is really to misrepresent. This is really malicious and this is already borne by the forensic investigation done by the NBI together with the PNP,” Andres said.
