A rare school shooting in the southwestern Philippines prompted heightened security measures in campuses nationwide, but posts claiming a mayor of a nearby city banned Muslims from entering schools shared a made-up quote on a fabricated news graphic. The Cagayan de Oro City government denied Mayor Rolando "Klarex" Uy ever made such a statement, while the local radio station whose logo appears on the graphic also said they did not produce it.
"I am requiring all teachers to stop all Muslims from entering our schools for now," reads a Visayan-language quote attributed to Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Rolando "Klarex" Uy, in a Facebook graphic shared on August 20, 2026.
The graphic includes an image appearing to show the mayor speaking to the press. The logo of GMA Super Radyo Davao is displayed in the top-right corner, attributing the graphic to the station.
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It circulated two days after a deadly school shooting in Zamboanga City, around 500 kilometres (310 miles) from Cagayan de Oro City in the southwestern Philippines ( archived link).
Authorities said a student livestreamed himself fatally shooting a schoolmate before taking his own life. They identified the suspect as a ninth-grade student, placing him between 14 and 16 years old.
School shootings are rare in the Philippines, but three teenage students were killed and 20 others wounded in an attack at a school in the central Philippines in June.
The same graphic was also shared in similar Facebook posts.
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